A Utah man on Tuesday was declared factually innocent of sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl and will be paid more than $600,000 to make up for the nearly 15 years he spent behind bars for the alleged crime.
Christopher Wickham is the second Utahn in the last week to be found factually innocent of a sex crime. He was convicted in 1997 of two counts of aggravated sexual assault, after a teen girl testified that two men held her down and took turns sexually assaulting her in December 1995.
Wickham has been trying to appeal his convictions ever since.