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Oregon has agreed to pay $925,000 to a man who spent more than a decade behind bars for a crime he did not commit, a case that is now being cited as one of the state’s most significant wrongful conviction settlements. Philip Scott Cannon was formally granted a certificate of innocence this week, closing a legal chapter that began with a triple homicide investigation more than 25 years ago.
Cannon, a Salem resident, was wrongfully convicted in the 1998 murders of three people at a rural mobile home west of Salem and ultimately spent over 11 years in prison before his conviction was overturned. Court records show
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