In an unprecedented settlement, the city of Cleveland, Ohio has agreed to pay a wrongfully convicted man $1.6 million--and reopen more than 100 cases to see whether the forensic fraud that infected his trial also occurred in other cases.

"(Cleveland) agreed to pay (Michael) Green $1.6 million for the 13 years he spent in prison for a rape he didn't commit. The payment is only a fraction of the $10 million Green demanded in a lawsuit, but he accepted less because the city also agreed to reopen more than 100 cases that included testimony from the same forensics lab worker who falsely testified in Green's trial. "

"This is virtually unprecedented," said Barry Scheck, co-founder of the Innocence Project in New York City, which used DNA evidence to free Green. "This is a model for the rest of the country, and to my knowledge this is the first time that public officials have voluntarily agreed to do this."

An interesting note - after Green was freed from prison, the Plain Dealer ran a series of articles about his ordeal. The real rapist was so overcome by guilt when he read the articles that he turned himself in and confessed to the crime.