El Paso County has reached a $3 million settlement with the developer Ray Marshall to resolve his federal lawsuit alleging a former investigator for the 4th Judicial District District Attorney’s Office fabricated evidence and withheld evidence from his criminal defense lawyers.

The lawsuit, which sought damages as high as $475 million, alleged Marshall was wrongfully prosecuted from 2009 until 2020 during the tenure of 4th Judicial District Attorney Dan May despite evidence of his innocence. Marshall faced 86 criminal charges through the filing of two criminal cases but was never convicted.

The lawsuit stated that weeks after May took office as district attorney in 2009, his chief investigator, Linda Dix, launched a malicious investigation into Marshall’s business dealings that resulted

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