The state of Massachusetts has agreed to pay $1 million, the maximum allowed by law, to a man who was jailed two weeks after his 16th birthday and spent nearly 38 years in prison for a murder in Roslindale, Massachusetts that the state attorney general’s office concluded he did not commit.
A judge approved the settlement for Frederick Clay, 55, last week in Suffolk Superior Court as part of an agreement that wipes out his criminal record and entitles him to free tuition at any community college or state university, records show.