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King County pays $500,000 to man acquitted of murder charge April 23, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail SEATTLE (AP) King County has agreed to pay $500,000 to settle a civil-rights lawsuit filed by a man who spent two years in jail awaiting trial on homicide charges, only to be acquitted by a jury. The Seattle Tmes reports the judge found evidence detectives cherry-picked evidence and included “false and misleading” statements in court documents. Rodney Wheeler, in a federal lawsuit filed in 2019, insisted he was targeted and prosecuted for a homicide “he did not commit and had no involvement with whatsoever.” The lawsuit alleged King County sheriff’s detectives “made false statements and omitted important facts that would have undermined their allegations” that he shot a man outside a Motel 6 in SeaTac following an argument in August 2016. ....