Man wrongfully convicted for 2008 murder awarded $50M in federal lawsuit

CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - A Chicago man who spent almost a decade in prison for a murder he did not commit has won $50 million for his wrongful conviction.

Marcel Brown thanked jurors and said justice was finally served after a federal trial that lasted about two weeks. The now 34-year-old was released from prison back in 2018 and won a certificate of innocence a year later.

“I was just a kid. I felt like a slave. They put me in a den full of lions, and they didn’t care any or show no remorse,” Brown said.

In his malicious prosecution lawsuit against the City of Chicago, several police officers and a prosecutor, Brown said he was convicted as an accomplice in the 2008 murder of 19-year-old Paris Jackson on the West Side but was not allowed to speak to his mother or a lawyer she hired for him the night he was arrested.

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