FILE — Grant Williams, left center, is embraced by his attorney Irving Cohen after his murder conviction is vacated, July 22, 2021, in New York. New York City has agreed to pay $7 million to Williams who spent 23 years behind bars for a murder he didn't commit, Comptroller Brad Lander said Monday, May 23, 2022. (Jan Somma-Hammel/Staten Island Advance via AP, Pool, File)
Wrongful Conviction-Settlement
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City has agreed to pay $7 million to a man who spent 23 years behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit. Comptroller Brad Lander announced the settlement Monday with Grant Williams. He was exonerated last July in the 1996 shooting of Shdell Lewis outside a Staten Island public housing complex. Williams had been paroled in 2019. He had unsuccessfully appealed his conviction for years before Staten Island District Attorney Michael McMahon’s office agreed to review it and eventually joined him in asking a court to dismiss his conviction.
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