Wrongly Convicted Man Dies After $7.5 Million Lawsuit Win

 Dan Gristwood Spent 9 Years Behind Bars

Dan Gristwood, a man who won a $7.5 million legal judgement for a wrongful conviction that put him behind bars for nine years, has died just four months after finally receiving the money that was meant to compensate him for his ruined life — a life that was destroyed by a false confession coerced by police in 1996.

Gristwood, who lived in Oswego County, New York, and died of lung cancer Saturday afternoon at a hospital in Syracuse, was just 48 years old. He had received his payout in September, after first winning a lawsuit against the state in May of 2013, only to have the state appeal what was then a $5.5 million award.

The wrongly convicted man, who was imprisoned from 1996 to 2005 after being found guilty of trying to kill his wife by smashing her head with a hammer as she slept, waited for 16 months for the appeal to be denied. By the time that happened, accrued interest raised his award to $7.5 million

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Sharyl Attkisson sues #administration over computer #hacking

By Howard Kurtz

Published January 05, 2015

FoxNews.com

Former CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson has sued the Justice Department over the hacking of her computers, officially accusing the Obama administration of illegal surveillance while she was reporting on administration scandals. 

In a series of legal filings that seek $35 million in damages, Attkisson alleges that three separate computer forensic exams showed that hackers used sophisticated methods to surreptitiously monitor her work between 2011 and 2013. 

"I just think it's important to send a message that people shouldn't be victimized and throw up their hands and think there's nothing they can do and they're powerless," Attkisson said in an interview

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