A two-year-long legal battle by a German man who was the victim of a major miscarriage of justice ended on Wednesday when he was granted €1.3 million ($1.5 million) in compensation from the Bavarian state , the state's Justice Ministry said. Manfred Genditzki, a former apartment building superintendent, was jailed for life in 2010 after being found guilty by a Munich regonal court of drowning an elderly woman from Rottach-Egern in her bathtub in 2008. Shortly after his sentencing, forensic