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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 that's 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.