The State Claims Board said Tuesday it will pay an Oak Creek man who spent nearly 13 years in prison the maximum $25,000 as compensation for his wrongful conviction. The board found that Chaunte Ott “has provided clear and convincing evidence” of his innocence. As part of Ottâ??s claim for compensation, the Wisconsin Innocence Project also had presented evidence that the two men who implicated themselves and Ott in Payneâ??s murder had fabricated their testimony under intense police pressure. Testing years after the crime showed that none of the three menâ??s DNA was on the murdered teenager.
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