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Man who spent 25 years behind bars for crime he didn't commit faces losing $4 million compensation to ex-wife who divorced him while he was in prison
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man who spent 25 years in prison for a crime he did not commit faces losing his $4m compensation to his ex-wife.
Steven Phillips faces a court battle to keep hold of the money he was awarded for his wrongful conviction.
He was released from a life sentence for rape in 2008 after DNA proved he could not have been the attacker.
But now his ex-wife Traci Tucker, who divorced him three years into his life sentence, has taken him to court in a bid to get a share of the $4m compensation.
She claims he owes her money that she would have been entitled to had they divorced and shared their assets.
But 51-year-old Phillips said his ex-wife has been with another man for over 20 years and he has had nothing to do with her.
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