The state of kansas will pay a man named richard jones one-point-one million dollars after he spent 17-years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.

Jones was convicted of a robbery in the parking lot of a walmart after witnesses misidentified jones as the robber.

There was also no physical evidence or dna linking jones to the crime.

Authorities now say a man who looked like him committed the crime.

In 20-17 -- jones was finally freed after the midwest innocence project and the university of kansas school of law helped uncover the wrongful conviction and after witnesses of the robbery could not tell him and another inmate apart.

Besides the settlement-- jones will receive a certificate of innocence and the record of his arrest and conviction will be expunged.

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