Board of Supervisors resolves a lawsuit filed by 62-year-old Samuel Bonner, whose conviction was overturned in 2019 due to prosecutorial misconduct.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has authorized a $3 million settlement for a man who spent 37 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted for a 1983 murder and robbery in Long Beach.
Bonner’s saga began on Nov. 11, 1982, when he agreed to drive an acquaintance, Watson Allison, to Rose Park in Long Beach to meet with a man named Leonard Polk, according to court records. Neighbors entered Polk’s apartment and discovered that he had been shot and killed, court records say. Allison and Bonner were tried separately, and Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Kurt Seifert advanced different theories of the killing — and the gunman’s identity — at each, records show.
Following Hayes’ agreement to testify in Bonner’s case and two others, one of his homicide charges was reduced to manslaughter, for which he received a four-year prison sentence.
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