A special meeting has been called so Gage County (Nebraska) officials can decide what to do next in wake of an appellate court ruling upholding a 26-Million-dollar judgment against the county.
The appeals court upheld the judgment against the county in the so-called Beatrice Six case in which six people were falsely imprisoned for a 1985 rape and murder.
Gage County Board Chairman Myron Dorn says the appellate court ruling disappoints him.
Dorn says the costs of the case keep mounting and could exceed 31-Million dollars. Now, the county must decide whether to keep up the legal battle
Gage County had appealed the judgment against it, in the convictions of the Beatrice Six. All served time for the February 1985 rape and murder of Helen Wilson of Beatrice. DNA evidence exonerated them in 2008. The state pardoned them in 2009. The group filed a lawsuit saying their arrests and imprisonment were the result of a reckless investigation, manufactured false evidence, and coerced confessions.
