He was unjustly imprisoned for 19 years. Now he’s getting almost $1 million from the state of California

2 Jeremy Puckett spent almost 20 years behind bars for a killing he didn't commit. On Thursday, the state agreed to pay the 44-year-old Sacramento man close to $1 million for his lost time. Puckett was first arrested in April 2001 for a cold case homicide that occurred three years earlier in eastern Sacramento County. That's where sheriff's deputies found Anthony Galati lying on the side of the road with two bullet wounds in his head. Puckett was arrested, prosecuted and eventually convicted in March 2002 despite having an alibi for the crime that the jury never heard. He spent years appealing his conviction on his own until the Northern California Innocence Project took his case in 2014. It would take another six years for Puckett to be exonerated. Puckett was released on March 13, 2020, just six days before Gov. Gavin Newsom first ordered all Californians to shelter in place to stem the spread of the coronavirus. The Chronicle followed Puckett through his first year of reclaimed freedom, which coincided with an unprecedented societal lockdown. Less than a month after his release, Puckett acknowledged some difficulty adjusting to a quickly changing world while trying to reconnect with family members… Read full this story

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