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| Subject: US woman innocent after 17 years jail Sun Nov 23, 2014 5:28 pm | |
| A woman who spent 17 years in a California prison for a murder she didn't commit has been declared innocent, clearing the way for her to collect about $US600,000 ($A649,100) in compensation from the state.
Susan Mellen, 59, said she was "so grateful" for the ruling that came about six weeks after her conviction was overturned and she was released from prison.
"I feel really badly about what happened here," Judge Mark Arnold said, according to City News Service.
Arnold overturned Mellen's conviction over the 1997 beating death of a homeless man because she was poorly represented at trial and a woman who claimed to have heard Mellen confess was a habitual liar.
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