Jury Awards Man $38M After Being Wrongfully Imprisoned over New Haven Murders

Jury awards man $38M after being wrongfully imprisoned over New Haven murders

HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — A jury has awarded a Connecticut man $38 million after being wrongfully convicted of murder in 1994 and imprisoned for 21 years, his lawyers said in a statement Friday. According to the New York-based law firm of Neufeld Scheck Brustin Hoffmann & Freudenberger, LLP, the jury ruled that officers within the [...]

Federal jury awards $38 million to man wrongfully convicted in New Haven double-murder

A federal jury awarded $38 million to Stefon Morant, who sued the city of New Haven on claims he was wrongly convicted in two murders that sent him to prison.

Jury Awards Morant $38M

Morant’s wife Kim (right) holds the form that has the verdict. A federal jury on Friday awarded $38 million to Stefon Morant, a man who spent 21 years behind bars for a 1990 double murder he has long claimed he did not commit. The jurors found that the City of New Haven and former Dets. Vincent Raucci and Vaughn Maher are liable under federal law for the misconduct that sent Morant to prison.  The decision came after two-and-a-half days of delib…

Jury awards New Haven man $38 million for wrongful conviction in 1990 double murder

A federal jury awarded a man $38 million on Friday for a wrongful conviction for a 1990 double murder. Stefon Morant sued the City of New Haven for the conviction for which he spent more than two decades in prison. He was released in 2015 after his conviction was overturned. The jury reached its decision after more than two days of deliberations. During the trial, Morant’s attorneys told the jury that formder police detective Vinceent Raucci fra…