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Exonerated man sues former Ramsey County (MN) deputy for planting DNA evidence
https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/exonerated-man-sues-former-ramsey-county-deputy-for-planting-dna-evidence/A Minnesota man who spent three years in jail for a crime he didn’t commit is suing a disgraced former Ramsey County Sheriff’s deputy for planting DNA evidence on a gun.
Benjamin Hill, 42, alleges in a new federal lawsuit that Thomas Rudenick, the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office and Ramsey County’s “brazen, illegal acts” led to “charge, illegally prosecute, wrongfully convict, and ultimately imprison” him. In the lawsuit, Hill claims former deputy Rudenick, who pleaded guilty in a separate case to removing evidence from the Sheriff’s Office and pawning it, took a DNA swab from Hill and planted it on two guns in 2011.
Hill was exonerated by a judge in December 2020 who ruled “a crime was not committed.” A postconviction court found that Hill proved “by a preponderance of the evidence that the DNA was planted in this case.”
“That’s three and a half years I’ll never get back,” Hill told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS. “I missed out on my son’s graduation, high school. I missed out on a lot of stuff.”
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