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- Alfred Dewayne Brown will finally be compensated up to nearly $2 million for his wrongful imprisonment, after spending 12 years behind bars and nearly a decade on Texas' death row for a crime the courts have since determined he didn't commit. On Friday, the Texas Supreme Court ruled that the state was wrong to deny him payment.
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The crime. In April 2003, three men robbed a check-cashing store in Houston, TX, where they fatally shot the store clerk and the police officer who responded to the scene. The following day, police arrested 21-year-old Alfred Dewayne Brown, 21-year-old Dashan Glaspie and 23-year-old Elijah Joubert on capital murder charges.
Dec 22, 2020 · Posted on Dec 22, 2020. Innocence. Texas. The Texas Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that the state’s comptroller had no authority to deny death-row exoneree Alfred Dewayne Brown ’s application for compensation after a trial court had declared him “actually innocent.”
Dec 18, 2020 · 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...
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Dec 18, 2020 · Alfred Dewayne Brown will finally be compensated up to nearly $2 million for his wrongful imprisonment, after spending 12 years behind bars and nearly a decade on Texas' death row for a...
Dec 18, 2020 · On Friday, the Texas Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Alfred Dewayne Brown is entitled to monetary compensation from the Texas Comptroller’s Office due to his near decade on death row...
Jan 14, 2016 · In the meantime, Brown remains free after prosecutors dismissed the charges. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, Brown is among six death row inmates freed from death...
Dec 18, 2020 · Brown was convicted of capital murder in Clark’s death in 2005 and sent to death row. The state’s highest criminal court overturned his conviction in 2014, when evidence not turned over at...
