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Two Black brothers were awarded $75 million after false rape, murder convictions led to more than 30 years in prison


Two Black brothers were awarded $75 million after false rape, murder convictions led to more than 30 years in prison
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In this Sept. 3, 2014 file photo, Henry McCollum walks out of prison after being released from Central Prison in Raleigh, N.C. AP Photo/Michael Biesecker, File
A jury awarded two brothers $75 million after they spent nearly 31 years wrongfully imprisoned.
The two were released in 2014 after new DNA evidence linked a convicted murderer to the crime.
The payout followed a civil rights case the brothers had pursued against law enforcement since 2015. ....

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Brothers get $75 million after serving 31 years in prison for crime they didn't commit


Brothers get $75 million after serving 31 years in prison for crime they didn’t commit
Updated May 15, 2021;
Henry McCollum and Leon Brown spent nearly 31 years in prison for a brutal crime they did not commit one they were convicted of on the basis of confessions that they insisted, for decades, had been coerced.
In a federal courtroom in Raleigh late Friday afternoon, after nearly five hours of deliberation, a jury delivered the half brothers a sense of long-awaited justice.
An eight-person jury awarded McCollum and Brown $31 million each in compensatory damages $1 million for every year they spent in prison after they were wrongfully convicted, twice, of the 1983 rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl in Red Springs. McCollum and Brown, both intellectually-disabled with IQs in the 50s, were teenagers when they were charged after they signed confessions they insisted they didn’t understand. ....

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