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Treasurer Nancy Kopp, Gov. Larry Hogan, center, and Comptroller Peter Franchot at the Board of Public Works meeting on March 4, 2020, in Annapolis, Maryland. The panel approved $2.9 million each in compensation for three men wrongfully imprisoned more than 30 years ago in a middle-school killing over a Georgetown jacket. (Kevin Brown/Capital News Service)

Three wrongfully convicted men each awarded $2.9 million in damages

The Board of Public Works approved compensation for three wrongfully convicted men.
Alfred Chestnut, Andrew Stewart Jr., and Ransom Watkins were each given $2.9 million in damages for spending more than three decades in prison due to convictions for a 1983 murder of a Baltimore middle schooler. They were exonerated in November.