Sentenced to life imprisonment and released in 2020
Driving too fast, resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer
An American man who was released after serving 16 years in prison after being falsely accused of killing someone was shot and killed during a struggle with police officers who were controlling traffic.
The New York Times (NYT) reported on the 17th (local time) that Leonard Allen Cure (53), who was acquitted and released in 2020, was shot and killed by police while driving at speed on a road in Georgia.
According to the Camden County Sheriff’s Office, Cure was driving at a high speed while heading home after visiting his mother’s home in south Florida on the 16th.
The traffic police saw this and ordered Cure to stop the car and get out.
Cure got out of the car and when the police officer tried to arrest him, he refused to comply and assaulted the police officer.
Accordingly, the police tried to subdue Cure using electric shock guns and Tasers, but he continued to resist and eventually fired his gun. The identity of the police officer is unknown.
“Even after he was free, Cure was always afraid that he could be caught again for something he didn’t do,” said Seth Miller, executive director of the Innocence Project of Florida (IPF), an organization that provides free legal services to wrongfully convicted people. “He said.
Cure was identified as the culprit of an armed robbery that occurred in Broward County, Florida in 2003 and was sentenced to life in prison.
However, it was later revealed that Cure was not at the crime scene at the time of the incident, and he was acquitted in 2020.
He received $817,000 (about 1.1286 million won) in compensation from the state of Florida last August.
“Cure has been participating in training to help prosecutors file fairer prosecutions,” Broward County Prosecutor Harold Pryor said. “He dreamed of going to college. “He was a smart and kind man,” he said.
Source: Donga
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