US: Chicago man gets $50 million after being wrongfully convicted for murder
US Justice Department
A man in the United States, who spent 10 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, was awarded $50 million by a Chicago federal jury on Monday.
Marcel Brown was wrongfully convicted in 2011 and was sentenced to 35 years in prisonfor a 2008 shooting of a 19-year-old man on the west side of Chicago.
Brown served 10 years in prisonbefore getting released in 2018 after a court vacated his conviction and prosecutors dismissed all charges against him.
A lawsuit has also been filed against the City of Chicago and two Chicago police detectives.
Brown has also been awarded $50,000 in punitive damages, according to Fox 32 News.
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August 2008 shooting
In August 2008, Paris Jackson was shot and killed in Galewood's Amundsen Park. Brown, who was 18 at that time, was arrested and charged as the getaway driver.
Brown's attorney, John Loevy, said that he had only gone to the park to pick up his sister when the shooting happened.
"He goes over to the park to pick up his sister, people start shooting, they accuse him of being an accomplice and he had nothing to do with it," Loevy said.
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According to the lawsuit, the prosecutors coerced his confession during a 30-hour interrogation, in which the detectives threatened him. Moreover, Brown was denied legal counsel and phone calls to his family and provided little food.
His interrogation was recorded on video, later becoming key evidence in the case.
Locke Bowman, an attorney with Loevy & Loevy, said, "This $50 million dollar verdict is a wake-up call to Mayor Johnson and Superintendent Snelling that it’s time to get a grip on the way CPD conducts its investigations."
Brown has been free for six years now, following his release from prison.
(With inputs from agencies)
