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US man wins $50m after 10 years in prison for murder he didn’t commit

Marcel Brown, 34, was sentenced to 35 years in prison after being convicted of being an accomplice in the 2008 shooting of a 19-year-old man in Chicago [File: Joshua Roberts/Reuters]

A man in the United States has been awarded $50m in damages after being wrongfully convicted of murder in the largest such payout in US history.

Marcel Brown, 34, was sentenced to 35 years in prison after being convicted of being an accomplice in the 2008 shooting of a 19-year-old man on the west side of Chicago.

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