A federal jury in Chicago ruled on Monday, September 9, in favor of Marcel Brown, a 34-year-old man who was in prison for 10 years. The court awarded the largest settlement to a single plaintiff for wrongful conviction in U.S. history, said Loevy & Loevy, the law firm representing him.
Brown was arrested and sentenced to 35 years in prison after being found guilty of being an accessory to the murder of a 19-year-old man in 2008.
But in 2018 the case against him was dismissed and he was released after his lawyers present evidence that the confession had been obtained from him illegally.
The authorities in charge of the case charged him
According to Loevy & Loevy, “Chicago police officers locked (Brown) in an interrogation room for more than 30 hours, They interrogated him relentlessly, “They deprived him of food, denied his repeated requests for a phone call and prevented him from sleeping.”
After a two-week trial in Chicago, the jury unanimously agreed with Brown’s defense team on “that the police coerced his statement and fabricated evidence,” the law firm said in its statement.
The jury awarded Brown $10 million in damages compensatory for the time elapsed between his arrest and conviction, and 40 million dollars in damages for his time in prison.
“Today justice was finally done for me and my family,” Brown said outside court, according to his lawyers.
Source: https://www.noticiascaracol.com/mundo/estuvo-10-anos-en-la-carcel-por-error-y-ahora-le-daran-millonaria-suma-en-compensacion-rg10
