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A split 4th U.S. Circuit of Appeals panel has ruled that Darryl Howard can pursue a lawsuit against two additional Durham police officers. A jury already has awarded Howard $6 million from a third officer who helped keep Howard imprisoned for 21 years for two murders he didn’t commit.

A federal grand jury awarded Howard the money after he spent decades in prison for a wrongful conviction of murder. Durham officials cite an arcane law thats stopping them from paying him.

The wrongfully convicted man who spent decades in prison asked the council to ignore an arcane city law that is preventing he city from paying him $6 million a grand jury found he is entitled to.

How Durham’s city council has avoided paying a jury award to a man who was falsely convicted of a double homicide in 1995.

After being framed by a North Carolina police detective, spending more than two decades in prison and fighting to be free, Darryl Howard must now take on

An attorney for the city of Durham, North Carolina, defended the Durham City Council's controversial decision to vote against paying a $6 million judgment to a man who was wrongfully imprisoned for 21 years.

A Durham, North Carolina man who won a $6 million lawsuit after being wrongfully convicted on two murder charges will likely never see the money after the Durham City Council decided against paying him.

A wrongfully convicted Black man, who successfully fought to have two murder convictions overturned and received a pardon from the North Carolina governor