Civil Plaintiff
A Chicago Man Reaches a $7.5 Million Settlement Over His Wrongful Conviction
A Chicago man who was pardoned after spending more than seven years in prison for an armed robbery he didn’t commit has reached a $7.5 million settlement with a northern Indiana city and former police officers, his attorney and a city spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Keith Cooper’s attorney, Elliot Slosar, said it is the largest wrongful conviction settlement in Indiana history and that his lawsuit “exposed the systemic pattern of police and prosecutorial misconduct that exists in Elkhart, Indiana.”
“Mr. Cooper’s wrongful conviction did not happen by accident nor was it an aberration,” he added in a news release.
