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Jury Mulls Neb. Wrongful Convictions Lawsuit

jury-box(AP) — A jury of seven men and five women has resumed deliberations on a lawsuit filed for six people wrongly convicted for a 1985 Nebraska murder.

The case was turned over to the jury members on Monday afternoon, and they resumed their work on Tuesday.

The complainants’ attorneys want the jury to hold two lawmen and the estate of a third responsible for imprisoning the six. James Dean, Kathleen Gonzalez, Debra Shelden, Ada JoAnn Taylor, Joseph White and Thomas Winslow served a combined 77 years in prison before DNA testing exonerated them in 2008. The tests pointed authorities to a man who died in 1992.

The five and the estate of White, who died in 2011, seek at least $14 million in damages.

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