Officials begin paying $6.6 million after life sentence is vacated

A man who was released from prison last year after the Missouri Supreme Court vacated his life sentence for murder has reached a $6.6. million settlement with St. Louis County.

St. Louis County officials began the process of issuing the money on Friday to Lawrence Callanan.

Callanan was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted in the 1996 murder of John Schuh in St. Louis County.

In releasing him last June, the state Supreme Court said the prosecutor in the case, Dan Diemer, withheld evidence during the trial that would have been favorable to the defense.