U.S. Supreme Court denies Miami Twp. request to review $45M verdict for Dean Gillispie

Miami Twp. continues to face responsibility for paying a $45 million verdict to a man wrongfully convicted for more than two decades after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request to review the case. Miami Twp. previously asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a $45 million verdict awarded to Dean Gillispie, who spent more than 20 years in prison for sexual assaults he didn’t commit and later sued over constitutional violations in the investigation that led to his wrongful conviction. Miami Twp. submitted a petition for a writ of certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court, which, if it had...