Kareem Bellamy, who spent 14 years in prison before his 1994 conviction for a murder in Queens was overturned, was awarded $2.75 million Wednesday when a judge approved a settlement of Bellamy’s wrongful prosecution claims.

In a Manhattan courtroom, Bellamy told Court of Claims Judge Alan Marin that after he lost his final avenue of appeal 11 years into a 25-to-life sentence, “I thought all hope was lost.”