The Salt Lake City-based group began investigating Thompson’s innocence claim in 2015, according to a news release from the University of Utah’s S. Thompson is the latest defendant to be exonerated through the work of attorneys at the Rocky Mountain Innocence Center, executive director Kristy Columbia said. The Utah Attorney General’s Office has since appealed this finding and asked the judge to hold off on handing out that money until the appeal is resolved. She also ordered that Thompson receive $300,000, as required by Utah law, to account for the seven years he spent incarcerated. ![]() ![]() ![]() Third District Judge Su Chon found Michael W. A Wisconsin man’s name was cleared this summer, 14 years after he was convicted and put in Utah prison for crimes that evidence showed he could not have committed.
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