Texas Supreme Court holds Alfred Dewayne Brown should be paid
The Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday that the state comptroller wrongly denied payments to a man who was declared innocent last year after spending 12 years in prison — including nine on death row. A trial judge declared Alfred Dewayne Brown innocent of the 2003 shooting death of a Houston police officer after the judge found the prosecuting attorney withheld and suppressed exculpatory evidence that showed Brown was not at the crime scene. Like many wrongly convicted Texans, Brown applied for compensation from a state fund that pays $80,000 for every year spent in prison. For Brown, that...
Source: statesman.com