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The man, David Ranta, was awarded $6.4 million in an out-of-court settlement.
David Ranta spent 23 years in a maximum security facility after being convicted of shooting Williamsburg rabbi Chaskel Werzberger in the head during a botched robbery.
Louis Scarcella, who helped wrongfully put a man in prison for 23 years for a murder he did not commit, has been under scrutiny by the DA's office for the past six months.
"I stand by everything I did," Louis Scarcella said.
Family members say that on David Ranta's second day out of jail, he starting feeling pain in his back and shoulders
Ranta, 58, was convicted of shooting rabbi Chaskel Werzberger in the head during a botched robbery attempt at a Brooklyn jewelry store in February 1990.