NEW YORK — A federal judge has reduced a man’s wrongful conviction jury award from $18 million to $12 million.
U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin held March 4 that Alan Newton, who spent 12 years in prison until a wayward DNA rape kit was found by the police and used to clear him in the 1984 rape and robbery of a woman in the Bronx, should receive $1 million for each year behind bars. The judge said her decision was based on comparable cases and her finding that the higher number “shocks the judicial conscience.”
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