Jury awards $5M to wrongly imprisoned Texas man
Published: June 26, 2009
Tags: wrongful imprisonment
A federal jury on Thursday awarded $5 million to a Houston man who spent 17 years in prison for a kidnapping and rape he did not commit, finding the city should pay for its “deliberate indifference” to problems at the crime lab whose false evidence secured the conviction. Click here for the full article from ...
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