A jury in the civil trial of Jordan Brown has ruled in favor of Pennsylvania state troopers who arrested him after the 2009 murder of his father’s pregnant girlfriend.
Jurors had to decide whether state police violated his constitutional rights through malicious prosecution and fabrication of evidence. His attorney claimed that troopers arrested him less than 24 hours after the murder, without credible evidence and without regard to the ex-boyfriend against whom Houk had taken out a PRF.
Channel 11’s Cara Sapida was in the courtroom and will see more on Channel 11 News starting at 4 p.m.
Brown spent seven years in juvenile detention for the murder of Kenzie Houk before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court unanimously overturned his murder conviction due to insufficient evidence.
Nearly sixteen years later, he sued the troopers who put him in jail.
In his closing arguments on Wednesday, his attorney said the “11-year-old was arrested at 3:30 a.m., taken from his home and dropped off at an adult facility.”
Arguing soldiers operated in “reckless disregard for Jordan’s rights,” “fabricated evidence” that would soon be his stepsister’s interview, saying, “but for that evidence he probably wouldn’t have been arrested.”
In 2009, Houk was shot in the back of the head while she was nine months pregnant. Houk’s 7-year-old daughter accused Jordan, saying he killed her before school in her interview with police at 12:30 p.m. Attorneys for Brown claim the two children were interviewed seven times that day before she said anything about guns or hearing a “boom.”
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