Two men who served nearly 17 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of attempted murder have been declared innocent and will be paid for their time behind bars – at a rate of $140 (£112) a day.
The men were freed in 2020 after a retrial involving a dramatic confession by the actual shooter, a gang member who is serving a life sentence for another murder.
The conclusion of the new trial in Los Angeles means Dupree Glass and Juan Rayford will be entitled to compensation.
Under a new law, the State of California is required to pay them each $140 for every day they spent behind bars, or about $900,000 (£725,000).
Glass and Rayford were 17 and 18 respectively when they were arrested after a 2004 shooting in which two teenagers were injured.
They were both convicted of 11 counts of attempted murder and sentenced to 11 consecutive life sentences.
The teens, who had no criminal history, maintained from the start they were not involved in the shooting.
Their convictions relied heavily on the testimony of just two witnesses who later recanted their stories.
