Man Released From Death Row Sues For Wrongful Conviction

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HOUSTON (AP) — A former death row inmate has filed a request for almost $2 million in state compensation saying he spent more than 12 years in prison because he was wrongfully convicted of murder.

Alfred Dewayne Brown filed the request Monday.

The 33-year-old Houston man was released in June after spending nearly a decade on Texas' death row for the fatal shooting of a Houston police officer.

Brown was set free after Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson dismissed the capital murder charge against him.

Brown won a new trial in 2014 after the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals agreed that telephone records bolstering his claims of innocence in the death of Houston Officer Charles Clark were withheld from Brown's 2005 trial. A homicide investigator found the records while cleaning his garage.

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