Neal Manne, a managing partner in Houston’s Susman Godfrey, expects his pro bono client, a former death row inmate who has been exonerated, to receive a lump-sum payment of $973,000 from the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts.

“He fits squarely within what the Texas Supreme Court has already said. What matters is that he filed a habeas petition premised on his innocence and it was granted,” Manne said about his client, Alfred DeWayne Brown.