Jury Awards Man $45 Million for Wrongful Incarceration

Jurors have awarded $45 million to an Ohio man who was wrongfully incarcerated for the kidnap and rape of three women in the 1980s.

Roger “Dean” Gillispie, now 57, was found guilty in 1991 for assaulting 22-year-old twin sisters as well as a third woman in Miami and Harris townships.

On Monday, a Montgomery Count jury found that a Miami Township detective suppressed evidence that led to Gillispie’s guilty verdict, and awarded him what was ultimately the largest settlement in Ohio’s history.

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