By Associated Press |(BALTIMORE) — A federal jury has awarded $15 million to a wrongfully convicted man in his lawsuit against the Baltimore Police Department and two detectives. The Baltimore Sun reports that Sabein Burgess said “justice has been served” after the verdict Tuesday. The 47-year-old Burgess spent nearly two decades in prison after being convicted in 1995 of killing his girlfriend. Burgess’ lawyer Jon Loevy says the $15 million verdict is among the largest in the country for a wrongful conviction case. In the civil trial, Burgess accused now-retired homicide detectives Gerald Goldstein and Steven Lehman of pinning the crime on him without pursuing other credible leads.

Source: GNN Liberia November 22, 2017 03:00 UTC