"settlement from Upper Merion Township, whose detectives had elicited a false confession."
and then
"We still don't think we did anything wrong," said Joseph J. Pizonka, the Upper Merion solicitor. "But we got to thinking, 'He spent 15 years of his life in prison. What is that worth?' "
ok... so the detectives put him in jail for 15 years with a false confession, but they don't think they did anything wrong? wtf!