Man freed from prison after 2 decades sues Ohio

Associated Press

TOLEDO

A man who spent almost 20 years in Ohio’s prisons before being released when a murder charge was dropped is suing the state.

Fifty-nine-year-old Danny Brown filed the wrongful-imprisonment lawsuit in Toledo on Wednesday. He’s hoping the suit will allow him to collect compensation for the two decades he spent behind bars.

Brown was convicted of killing and raping a Toledo woman in 1981, but he was freed in 2001 after DNA from the victim didn’t match him.

Prosecutors have said they still consider him a suspect even though the DNA pointed to another man convicted in another murder.

This is the second wrongful-imprisonment lawsuit Brown has filed. A state appeals court turned down his case nine years ago.