Texas court: Compensate man wrongly convicted in cop's death
by Juan A. Lozano, The Associated Press
Posted Dec 18, 2020 2:35 pm EDT
Last Updated Dec 18, 2020 at 2:44 pm EDT
HOUSTON — A state agency shouldn’t have denied compensation to a man who was wrongfully imprisoned —including for nearly a decade on death row — for the fatal shooting of a Houston police officer, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday.
After a judge signed an order in May 2019 declaring Alfred Dewayne Brown innocent in the April 2003 slaying of Officer Charles Clark during a robbery of a check-cashing store, Brown was eligible for nearly $2 million in compensation under state law. He spent more than 12 years in prison.