Three black men wrongly imprisoned from Cleveland have been awarded a settlement for $18 million after their wrongful conviction nearly 45 years. In 1975 three men; Rickey Jackson,63, Wiley Bridgeman, 65, and Kwame Ajamu, 62 in connection to a robbery and murder case Jackson, Bridgeman, and his brother Ajamu, formerly known as Ronnie Bridgeman, were 18, 20, 17 years of age respectively when they were accused and convicted for the deadly robbery of Harold Franks. They were convicted based solely on a testimony of a 12-year old boy, which eventually turned out to be false as the boy has since []

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