[JoeProBono]

[trumandogz]

1.1 million for 18 years of that hell?

The State of Ohio is getting off easy on this one.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

He says he plans to buy a house, a car and invest the rest of the money.

Modest goals for someone who had two decades ripped away from him unfairly. May God grant him a normal life from here on out.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I hope prison hasn’t ruined him for life. I hope he can find peace.

[goseminoles]

That’s not nearly enough money.

[DemforBush]

If my math is correct, that works out to about $61,000 a year, and about $167 for each day McClendon spent in prison.

Not a whole heck of a lot compared to what he lost.

[spetznaz]

God bless and save him

[CodeToad]

I am afraid we have thouseands upon thousands in prison for crimes they did not commit, all because of aggressive and reckless prosecutors.

[trapped_in_LA]

Just one more reason that I’ll never convict someone based just on the word of another. But in this case it looks like the state DNA tests were changed to fit the crime and it sounds like someone should be going to jail. This is what I really hate, you have prosecutors like Nifong or these idiots in this lab putting people away for life and what do they get? A big fat nothing in the way of punishment.

[Sherman Logan]

McClendon was convicted in 1991 of abducting and raping a female relative.

If she had accused a random guy she didn't know, it could possibly be considered an accidental misidentification.

If she falsely identified someone she knew well, then it could only have been false and perjured testimony.

I wonder what she will be charged with for this crime?

That's a joke, son. Women are never charged with a crime for sending a man to prison for decades by false testimony.

[wendy1946]

Sounds like one of those eye-witness identification things which didn’t really work and, I hate to say it, but there are simply too many white people in this country who couldn’t tell two blacks apart if one were male and the other female or one alive and the other dead. That’s causes a lot of people being in prison for stuff they know absolutely nothing about.

[Popman]

A private lab agreed to conduct DNA tests after he and other inmates were profiled by The Columbus Dispatch in a series that exposed flaws in the state's DNA testing system.

A flaw in the state DNA testing system???? WTF

This poor guy gets put away for 18 years because the state screwed up a DNA test......................and he only gets 1.1 million for it?

Talk about getting screwed twice

Also makes you wonder how many other man are behind bars because of the flawed State DNA system ?