NEW YORK (Dagbladet): it is Now clear that the Simi Valley at Los Angeles, California has entered into a settlement with the innocent convicted man. They pay him 21 million dollars (about 180 million) after that he had to spend 38 years in prison for the murders of a mother and her four-year-old son in 1978, writes the Los Angeles Times.

Craig Coley was released from prison in 2017 after he was pardoned by the state’s then-governor, Jerry Brown.

– Can not fix

– Even though no amount of money can rectify what happened with Coley, is it to enter into the settlement the right thing to do for Coley and the local community our. The economic costs of a trial would be astronomical, and it would be irresponsible for us to move in that direction, ” says the chief councilor Eric Levitt in a statement.

Simi Valley will pay 4.9 million dollars (about 42 million), while the rest of the amount will come from insurance and other sources, writes CNN.

Coleys attorney, Ron Kay, said to the Los Angeles Times that the settlement involves a form of closure and compensation even though no amount can compensate for the life he missed while he was in prison.

– He can now live the rest of his life, which we hope will be far into the future, with the security he deserves, ” says Kaye.

Found at home

last Year paid the state of also out a smaller replacement to the Coley. They gave him 140 dollars (about 1200 million) per day he was sitting behind the lock and turn. There were a total of 1,95 million dollars (about lag16,8 million).

Craig was acquitted after 38 years in prison. Now suspect the police that The “Golden State Killer” was behind the

11. november 1978 was the victims, Rhonda upper weight (24) and her son, Donald upper weight, found killed at home. According to the police then the scene out as if someone had tried to stage a burglary, and Rhonda upper weight was also been raped.

Coley had been in a relationship with the woman, but the two were about to go from each other. The former Vietnam soldier, who never was previously convicted, was charged with the two murders.

A nøkkelvitne against him was Wichts nearest neighbor. She said in court that she had heard bankelyder and so Coleys car outside leilighetsbygget on drapstidspunktet, and that she saw a man matching his description leave the place.

another neighbor claimed he heard sounds from the Wichts apartment at 5.30.

Problematic testimonies

Coley has claimed that he is innocent. In the claim of his about compensation he and the lawyers his forward problematic vitneuttalelser and other evidence.

one neighbor, who heard the sounds from the apartment, should originally have said to the police that he heard noise in the apartment an hour earlier – at 4.30. Coley was out together with colleagues that evening and drove one of them home at 4.45 bonus that night.

When investigators went back to the apartment complex is 39 years after the assassination, they tried also to look out of the window to the woman who claimed that she had seen Coleys car. They concluded that there was no possibility that she could have seen who was inside a car in the parking lot outside.

The most crucial piece of evidence to prove Coleys innocence is, however, DNA evidence that was recovered. These proofs were actually ordered destroyed by the court, but was found again in a private laboratory.

A part of a sheet that lay on the bed to the upper weight the night she was killed. It contains sperm and other DNA material from another man. Coleys DNA was not found.

Investigators also examined bloodstains and sperm found on the T-shirt to his son. The new tests showed that these stemmed from multiple people, but not Coley.

Simi Valley has so far not arrested anyone else for the killings.