According to the New York Post, the Medical University of South Carolina has awarded $1.5 million in damages to identical twin girls who were falsely accused of cheating during their end-of-year exams.
Set up in a room less than two meters from each other, the university first noticed suspicious interference and very similar answers during the final exam.
After verification, the company accused sisters Kayla and Kelly Bingham of cheating.
Originally found guilty, they were released days after the verdict.
The twins switched careers and went on to study law to become lawyers.
In 2017, they sued the school for defamation.
Only in the last few days has a Charleston court ruled in favor of the sisters.
Even a psychologist at the time of the trial noted that a different result on the test would have been surprising given that the twins had identical genes.
“We’ve lived with this for the last six years and now our lives have come back to us,” says Kayla Bingham.
