Whatâs the price for decades of wrongful imprisonment? Ronnie Long sues NC city, cops
Ronnie Long files lawsuit against City of Concord
By Michael Gordon | The Charlotte Observer | May 3, 2021 at 3:13 PM EDT - Updated May 3 at 7:46 PM
CONCORD, N.C. (The Charlotte Observer) - Ronnie Long on Monday filed his IOU to the City of Concord for the 44 years he spent in prison for a crime he says he did not commit.
Long, a Concord native, is not offering a hometown discount.
Ronnie Long sues City of Concord over wrongful arrest
In a lawsuit filed in the Raleigh federal courts, Long is demanding that the city and a group of its current and former law enforcement officers pay for what his complaint describes as a corrupt investigation and cover-up that led to Longâs 1976 rape conviction and 80-year prison sentence.