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Court of claims awards $3.5 million to Steven Barnes for wrongful conviction | NBC-WKTV News Channel 2 – Utica News, Weather, Sports – | Local News
ONEIDA COUNTY, N.Y. (WKTV) – A court of claims has awarded $3.5 million to the local man wrongfully convicted of a murder he didn’t commit. Steven Barnes spent nearly 20 years in prison for the 1985 murder of Kimberly Simon. Former State Court of Claims Judge Norman Siegel awarded Barnes the $3.5 million back in…