A North Bellport, Long Island, man who spent three decades in prison for a murder he did not commit has filed a federal lawsuit against Suffolk County.
Keith Bush was exonerated by a Suffolk County judge last year after county officials uncovered that investigators mishandled evidence and intimidated witnesses.
Bush, who now lives in Connecticut, was a teenager when he was wrongfully convicted for the 1975 murder of 14-year-old Sherese Watson.
He seeks monetary damages, estimated to be in the millions, in both the federal and a similar state lawsuits.
It’s one of the longest-running wrongful prosecutions in U.S. history.
