Iowa county pays $285,000 to man wrongly jailed for 68 days
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) " An Iowa county agreed Wednesday to pay $285,000 to an Arizona man who was arrested, transported across the country and jailed for 68 days for a crime that he did not commit.The payment will resolve a federal lawsuit that 23-year-old Joseph McBride filed in early January against Linn County and its longtime top prosecutor, County Attorney Jerry Vander Sanden.McBride was wrongly accused of participating in a Jan. 1, 2017, home invasion in Cedar Rapids in [...]
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