SUPRISINGLY: A Detroit-area man who spent nearly six years in prison received….
DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit-area man who killed a 15-year-old girl and spent almost six years in jail had his conviction overturned at the request of the prosecution after a jury awarded him $10 million.
The jury found that a Detroit police detective had violated Alexandre Ansari’s constitutional rights by hiding evidence related to the deadly shooting.
“It restores some of Mr. Ansari’s dignity and will allow him to recover from the horrendous experience of being wrongfully convicted of a heinous crime he did not commit,” attorney Wolf Mueller said of the verdict, which was returned on Thursday in federal court.
Mueller contended that throughout the 2013 trial in Wayne County court, the police withheld vital evidence regarding an alternative suspect from the prosecution and defence.
According to him, the material would have shown that a heroin dealer furious over drug thefts was probably responsible for the 2012 shooting death of Ileana Cuevas and the injuries of two other individuals.
Earlier in the dispute, U.S. District Judge Stephen Murphy III declared that withholding the material would be “egregious.”
The investigator had refuted any misconduct. However, based on information in the case, the prosecutor’s office concluded that he was afraid for his family in Texas and Mexico if the drug dealer knew he was looking into his murder.
Ansari was spared a life sentence in 2019 because prosecutor Kym Worthy consented to his “full and complete exoneration,” according to Mueller.
