Wrongfully Convicted Ohio Man’s $45 Million Verdict Upheld (1)

The $45 million judgment obtained against a police detective by an Ohio man, who spent 21 years in prison for sexual assaults he didn’t commit, was upheld Friday by the Sixth Circuit.

The three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit also said Miami Township, where detective Matthew Scott Moore worked when he investigated Roger Dean Gillispie, must pay what the jury awarded Gillispie in a 2022 trial that centered around Moore’s misconduct during the investigation.

In an opinion authored by Judge Eric L. Clay, the judges rejected the township’s arguments that the verdict should be ...