Ezra Hill spent 31 months in the Cook County Jail awaiting a trial on attempted murder charges. The trial lasted only a day, and it took jurors 30 minutes to agree on a verdict: not guilty.
A federal jury awarded Hill $3 million last week for the more than two years he spent behind bars, finding that Harvey Police attempted to frame Hill in a 2014 drive-by shooting, said Paul Vickrey, one of Hill’s attorneys.
