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Convicted of murder he did not commit, 34-year-old man with the largest compensation in US history

2024-09-12 18:53:50Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Convicted of murder he did not commit, 34-year-old man with the largest
Marcel Brown

An American citizen received $50 million in damages after being wrongly convicted of murder, one of the largest payouts of its kind in United States history.

Marcel Brown, 34, was sentenced to 35 years in prison as an accomplice in the 2008 slaying of a 19-year-old boy on Chicago's West Side.

Brown served ten years in prison before being released in 2018 after a court overturned his conviction and prosecutors dropped all charges against him.

After a two-week trial, a jury in U.S. District Court in Chicago awarded damages to Brown, finding that police fabricated evidence and coerced a false confession from him.

Law firm Loevy & Loevy said officers locked Brown in an interrogation room for more than 30 hours, deprived him of food, refused his repeated requests for a phone call and prevented him from sleeping.

Police also threatened him with lengthy prison terms if he refused to confess and pushed his mother and lawyer away when they arrived to help him, Loevy & Loevy said.

"I was just a child. They put me in a den full of 'lions,' they didn't care and they didn't show remorse," Brown said in a statement released by his attorneys.


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