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In this Wednesday, May 22, 2019 photo, Leon Brown stands by his tractor-trailer after making a delivery from a distribution center to the Port of Savannah, in Garden City, Ga. Brown is trusted enough to drive a tractor-trailer inside one of the nation’s busiest seaports more than six years after being released from prison. But he’s not allowed to vote in Georgia because of a law rooted in the years after the Civil War when whites sought to keep blacks from the ballot box. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)

Georgia stops voting by felons using broadest reading of law

By RUSS BYNUM - Associated Press

In this photo taken Aug. 26, 2014, Leon Brown speaks with a reporter at the Maury Correctional Institution in Maury, N.C., about his incarceration. A federal judge says he will approve $1 million in settlements from a North Carolina town to two half brothers wrongfully imprisoned for 30 years in the killing of an 11-year-old girl. U.S. District Judge Terrence Boyle said Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017, he will also review any fees sought by lawyers for Henry McCollum and Brown before the settlements with the town of Red Springs are finalized. (Chuck Liddy/The News &amp; Observer via AP)

Judge allowing $1M in settlements for wrongly convicted men

By JONATHAN DREW - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2014 file photo, Henry McCollum walks out of prison after being released from Central Prison in Raleigh, N.C. Lawyer fees and high-interest loans are threatening the financial futures of the two North Carolina brothers who have collected hundreds of thousands of dollars for their three decades of wrongful imprisonment, a court-appointed advocate said Wednesday, July 26, 2017. The advocate argued in a legal motion that McCollum and Leon Brown were steered into dubious financial arrangements by lawyers who stand to profit from the men's lawsuit against the investigators who put them behind bars. (AP Photo/Michael Biesecker, File)

Advocate: 2 pardoned brothers steered into financial straits

By JONATHAN DREW - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2014 file photo, Henry McCollum walks out of prison after being released from Central Prison in Raleigh, N.C. Lawyer fees and high-interest loans are threatening the financial futures of the two North Carolina brothers who have collected hundreds of thousands of dollars for their three decades of wrongful imprisonment, a court-appointed advocate said Wednesday, July 26, 2017. The advocate argued in a legal motion that McCollum and Leon Brown were steered into dubious financial arrangements by lawyers who stand to profit from the men's lawsuit against the investigators who put them behind bars. (AP Photo/Michael Biesecker, File)

Advocate: Fees, loans threaten pardoned brothers’ livelihood

By JONATHAN DREW - Associated Press

Pardoned brothers would pay lawyers $400K under settlement

By JONATHAN DREW - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 2, 2015, file photo, Henry McCollum holds a framed copy of his pardon before a hearing on compensation by the state for his wrongful conviction in Raleigh, N.C. Henry McCollum and Leon Brown wrongfully imprisoned for three decades in the killing of an 11-year-old girl have reached a settlement with investigators who helped put them behind bars. (AP Photo/Jonathan Drew, File)

Brothers wrongfully imprisoned 30 years settle rights suit

By JONATHAN DREW - Associated Press