WE ARE NOT EXPENDABLE!!! Imaging how many other cases there are like this! The system isn’t broken, it’s performing EXACTLY the way it was designed to!! #TeamDL #beingblackinamerica #Repost blackmediapage with make_repost ・・・ 23 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. He originally requested $48 million but was only awarded $6 million smh . A man who spent more than two decades behind bars after a detective fabricated evidence in the murder case against him was awarded a modicum of relief Wednesday after he was awarded $6 million in damages by a federal jury. The jury found that former Durham police detective Darryl Dowdy faked evidence in the botched investigation that put Darryl Howard behind bars on double murder and arson charges for the 1991 killing of Doris Washington and her teenage daughter. #blackmediapage Howard was exonerated when a judge vacated his convictions in 2016 on the basis of police and prosecutorial misconduct. The $6 million awarded on Wednesday stemmed ...