KANSAS CITY, MO (AP) --
A federal judge will decide whether Lee's Summit is acting in bad faith for not paying $16 million to a former resident forced to do prison time for a crime he did not commit.
Ted White spent five years behind bars after being convicted in 1999 of molesting his 12-year-old stepdaughter. His conviction was later overturned after it was learned that White's wife had been having an affair with the lead detective in the case.
In 2006 city officials agreed to pay any judgment against detective Richard McKinley in exchange for dropping the city and its police chief from a lawsuit.
A U.S. court of appeals last year upheld the award, but the city says a local ordinance forbids it from indemnifying a city employee who violated someone's constitutional rights.
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