leveland’s law department spent more
than $270,000 fighting a wrongful conviction lawsuit, and it won. Now, the city
wants its money back.
Assistant Cleveland Law Director Matthew Aumann asked U.S. District Judge
David Ruiz on Tuesday to order that Ru-El
Sailor pay the city $274,000, the amount
it paid for outside attorneys and for costs
that city attorneys accumulated during
the six years the lawsuit was pending.
Sailor spent 15 years in prison for a
murder he didn’t commit. But Ruiz last
month