CLEVELAND -- Two men are suing a disgraced former Cleveland police crime lab worker who helped put them in prison, alleging he fabricated evidence that led to their wrongful convictions for murder.
The lawsuit, seeking at least $1 million in compensatory damages, was filed Tuesday in federal court by Thomas Siller and Walter Zimmer, who each spent 13 years in prison for the 1997 beating of a woman who had employed them as handymen.
They say forensic analyst Joseph Serowik withheld information about blood evidence that would have pointed to a third suspect.
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