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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mark Scolforo

Lawsuit against troopers who investigated 11-year-old in murder case nears trial

Pregnant Woman Killed - (AP2009)

More than six years after he was exonerated based on insufficient evidence, a man who was charged as an 11-year-old with shooting his father's pregnant fiancee to death wants a federal jury to make the Pennsylvania State Police pay for the years he spent in juvenile detention.

Jordan Brown's federal civil rights case is expected to get underway in Pittsburgh early next month, nearly 16 years after he was first accused of the February 2009 death of Kenzie Marie Houk inside their rented farmhouse in Wampum, Pennsylvania.

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