Brown v. City of Hous.

Lee H. Rosenthal, Chief United States District Judge

Alfred Dewayne Brown was tried and convicted for capital murder. He spent just over 12 years in prison, most of that time on death row. After the discovery and production of previously withheld exculpatory evidence, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals vacated Brown's conviction and sentence and remanded the case to the Harris County trial court. Months later, after the District Attorney declined to reprosecute, the court granted Brown's motion to dismiss and released him from custody. In this federal suit, Brown seeks damages under § 1983…