Verdict Comes After Jury Finds the City of New Haven and Individual New Haven Police Department Officers Liable for Putting an Innocent Man in Prison for 21 Years (Hartford, CT) After a month-long trial in the District of Connecticut, a jury has awarded Morant $38,000,000, the national civil rights firm Neufeld Scheck Brustin Hoffmann & Freudenberger, LLP announced today. Morant was wrongfully convicted in 1994 for a crime he had nothing to do with. Though no amount of money can make up for what he went through, the verdict is powerful proof of what Morant has always maintained—he is innocent and his conviction happened because of egregious police misconduct. The jury found not only that NHPD detectives made up false evidence and lied to frame Morant, but that the City of New Haven was directly responsible. Specifically, the jury found the City liable for its widespread custom and practice of suppressing evidence favorable to criminal defendants. Municipal liability claims are notoriously hard to prove, and the verdict against the City is a strong indictment of the City’s longstanding tolerance for widespread police corruption. The jury also found former NHPD officer Vincent Raucci liable for the failure to disclose evidence favorable to criminal