Marcel Brown was wrongfully convicted over 2008 taking pictures of 19-year-old man in Chicago.
A person in the US has been awarded $50m in damages after being wrongfully convicted of homicide within the largest such payout in US historical past.
Marcel Brown, 34, was sentenced to 35 years in jail after being convicted of being an confederate within the 2008 taking pictures of a 19-year-old man on the west aspect of Chicago.
Brown served 10 years in jail earlier than being launched in 2018 after a courtroom vacated his conviction and prosecutors dismissed all fees in opposition to him.
After a two-week trial, a jury on the US District Courtroom in Chicago on Monday awarded Brown the damages after discovering that police had fabricated proof and coerced his false confession.
Legislation agency Loevy & Loevy stated cops had locked Brown in an interrogation room for greater than 30 hours, disadvantaged him of meals, denied his repeated requests for a telephone name, and prevented him from sleeping.
Police additionally threatened him with prolonged imprisonment if he refused to admit and turned away his mom and a lawyer once they arrived to assist him, Loevy & Loevy stated.
“I used to be only a child,” Brown stated in an announcement launched by way of his legal professionals. “They put me in a den filled with lions, and so they didn’t care or present regret.”