Montana Innocence Project client gets $5M settlement for wrongful conviction
Richard Raugust, wrongfully convicted in a homicide, has received a $5 million settlement in a case against Sanders County and a deputy sheriff, law firm Blackford Carls announced Wednesday.
In 1998, Raugust was wrongfully convicted of using a shotgun to shoot a friend and housemate to death and setting the scene on fire after another man falsely accused him — and a deputy sheriff withheld exculpatory evidence, according to Blackford Carls and the Montana Innocence Project...
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