An upstate appellate panel has unanimously affirmed a $5.5 million unjust conviction award to a man who falsely confessed to attempted murder after State Police interrogated him for 15 hours and told him he would never see his wife or five young children again unless he came clean.
The Appellate Division, Fourth Department, rejected all the arguments advanced by the state in seeking to topple or reduce the Court of Claims award to Daniel Gristwood.
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