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<p>NEW YORK — A US jury has awarded $50 million in damages to a man who spent nearly 10 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of murder, his lawyers said Tuesday.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/12/01/21/lovely-bones-author-apologizes-to-man-wrongfully-convicted-of-her-rape">• &#x27;Lovely Bones&#x27; author apologizes to man wrongfully convicted of her rape</a></div><p>A federal jury in Chicago on Monday ruled in favor of Marcel Brown, 34, giving the largest award to a single wrongful-conviction plaintiff in US history, Loevy &amp; Loevy, the law firm representing him said.</p><p>Brown was arrested and sentenced to 35 years in prison after he was convicted of being an accomplice in the 2008 murder of a 19-year-old man.</p><p>But in 2018 the case against him was dropped and he was released after his lawyers presented evidence that the confession had been obtained from him illegally.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/7/12/sc-conviction-required-in-compensation-claims-for-unjust-imprisonment-1715">• SC: Conviction required in compensation claims for unjust imprisonment</a></div><p>According to Loevy &amp; Loevy, &quot;Chicago police officers locked (Brown) in an interrogation room for more than 30 hours, interrogated him relentlessly, deprived him of food, denied his repeated requests for a phone call, and prevented him from sleeping.&quot;</p><p>After a two-week trial in Chicago, the jury unanimously agreed with Brown&#x27;s defense team &quot;that the police coerced his statement and fabricated evidence,&quot; the law firm said in its statement.</p><p>The jury awarded Brown $10 million in compensatory damages for the time between his arrest and conviction, and $40 million in damages for his time in prison and after.</p><p>&quot;Justice was finally served for me and my family today,&quot; Brown said outside the court, according to his lawyers.</p><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div><div><br/><strong>RELATED VIDEO:</strong></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_iBm4C9kmX8?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>

<p>A federal jury in Chicago on Monday ruled in favor of Marcel Brown, 34, giving the largest award to a single wrongful-conviction plaintiff in US history.</p>

A federal jury in Chicago on Monday ruled in favor of Marcel Brown, 34, giving the largest award to a single wrongful-conviction plaintiff in US history.

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US man gets $50 million after 10 years in prison on wrongful conviction

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Published Sep 11, 2024 10:30 AM PHT

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