BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — A judge has ruled that a Central Florida man who spent 23 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit should be compensated for his time behind bars.
Jeffrey Abramowski had his decades-old murder conviction tossed out last year.
He was found guilty of beating a woman to death in Melbourne back in 2002, but DNA testing overturned his sentence.
A judge said he should be compensated through a state law that gives people $50,000 for each year they were wrongfully incarcerated.
The ruling needs final approval from a circuit court, but Abramowski could get roughly $1.1 million.
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