American wins $50 million after 10 years in prison for murder he didn’t commit

Marcel Brown was wrongly convicted of shooting a 19-year-old man in Chicago in 2008.

A man in the United States has been awarded $50 million in damages after being wrongly convicted of murder, the largest such settlement in US history.

Marcel Brown, 34, was sentenced to 35 years in prison after being convicted of being an accessory to the 2008 shooting of a 19-year-old man on Chicago’s West Side.

Brown spent 10 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 on Monday awarded Brown damages after finding that police fabricated evidence and obtained false confessions.

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 phone calls and prevented him from sleeping.

Police also threatened him with a long prison sentence if he refused to confess and sent away his mother and a lawyer when they arrived to help him, Loevy & Loevy said.

“I was just a kid,” Brown said in a statement released by his lawyers. “They put me in a den full of lions, and they didn’t care and they showed no remorse.”