Man gets $9M for wrongful conviction

Chicago has agreed to pay $9 million to a man who spent more than a decade in prison for rapes he did not commit.

LaFonso Rollins, who was 17 when he went to prison, was cleared by DNA testing. The city decided to settle the civil case last week after lawyers saw notes kept by Joel Schulze, a former serologist in Chicago's crime lab, the Grand Rapids Press reported. Schulze is now working for the Michigan State Police.

Rollins' lawyer says that Rollins should have been cleared when he was first arrested. He confessed during police interrogation and was also identified in police lineup, was convicted and sentenced to 75 years.

The governor of Illinois pardoned Rollins after DNA testing showed he could not have committed the rapes.