NYC Will Pay $17.5 Million to Man Who Was Wrongly Convicted of 1996 Murders

Published on November 18, 2023

NEW YORK—New York City will pay $17.5 million to a man who spent 24 years in prison for a double homicide he did not commit, city officials said Thursday. The settlement in the case of George Bell, one of three men convicted for the 1996 killing of a Queens check-cashing store owner and an off-duty police officer, was first reported by The New York Times. A judge threw out the convictions of Mr. Bell and the other two men in 2021 and they were released from the Green Haven Correctional Facility, The judge, Joseph A. Zayas of the Appellate Division of State Supreme Court, said prosecutors in the cases of Mr. Bell, Gary Johnson, and Rohan Bolt withheld exculpatory evidence that other people might have committed the slayings....

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