Federal Judge Dismisses Claim Against Harris County DA in Wrongful Conviction Case

Style Magazine Newswire | 1/10/2020, 12:06 p.m.
Federal Judge Lee Rosenthal dismissed a claim against Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg brought by a former death row …

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Federal Judge Lee Rosenthal dismissed a claim against Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg brought by a former death row inmate who was wrongfully convicted. The judge said in a Dec. 20 opinion that Alfred Dewayne Brown suing Ogg individually is redundant with his suing the county, another defendant in his pending legal claim, the Houston Chronicle reported. Brown, now 37, brought the lawsuit in June 2017 to seek compensation for the 12 years he spent in prison before a retired police investigator found an old audio recording in his garage that corroborated the Houston man’s alibi. Brown was sent to death row in 2005 for the fatal shooting of a police officer during a botched robbery of a check-cashing store, the newspaper reported.

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