Gage County will appeal $28.1M judgment to US Supreme Court
BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — Gage County will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court a $28.1 million judgment awarded to six people wrongfully convicted of murder.
Radio station KWBE reports that county board made that decision Wednesday, a day after the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the county's appeal for a review by the full court. A three-judge panel of the appeals court last month declined to overturn a jury's 2016 verdict. The verdict was awarded to the so-called Beatrice Six for their wrongful convictions in the 1985 rape and killing of 68-year-old Helen Wilson in Beatrice. The six spent more than 75 years combined in prison until DNA evidence cleared them in 2008.