US man wrongly jailed for 25 years sues state for $25 mn
April 14, 2014  20:20
A man in the US who was wrongly locked up in prison for nearly 25 years has sued the state for $25 million, a million each for the years he spent behind bars. Derrick Deacon who spent almost a quarter-century behind bars for a crime he did not commit, has hit the state with the $25 million lawsuit and hopes it will teach authorities a lesson about bending the rules to gain a conviction.

"These people have to pay for every day they made me suffer behind the wall for no reason," Deacon, 58, who was freed last year by new evidence, told The New York Post.

Deacon, from Brooklyn, was convicted of murder on December 21, 1989, in the fatal shooting that April of Anthony Wynn, 16. He was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. Deacon was granted a new trial on June 20, 2012, after a Jamaican said a fellow gang member killed Wynn.
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