The City of Springfield is agreeing to a more than three-million-dollar settlement with a man that spent decades in prison for a sexual assault he said he did not commit.
The City Council voted earlier this week to approve the settlement with George Perrot.
Perrot was given a life sentence after he was found guilty of raping an elderly woman, but a judge ordered his release in 2016 after ruling there was flawed evidence.
Perrot was accused of sexual assault again in 2019, but pleaded guilty to a lesser charge.