Ronnie Long, NC man who spent 44 years in prison for rape he didn't commit, gets $25M settlement

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The city of Concord will have to pay out a record settlement for its part in wrongfully convicting Ronnie Long and issue a formal apology to him.

Long was 21 years old in 1976 when he was sentenced to life in prison for a rape he didn’t commit. He spent 44 years behind bars until the courts finally overturned his conviction in 2020, citing the “troubling and striking pattern of deliberate police suppression of material evidence.”

Long was finally set free on Aug. 27, 2020.

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