Brown v. Department of Corrections

¶1 Twelve-year-old Alajawan S. Brown was shot in the back and died on April 29,2010. On June 17, 2010, the State filed criminal charges of murder in the first degree of Alajawan and unlawful possession of a firearm against Curtis John Walker. Walker pleaded not guilty. Walker asserted he did not shoot Alajawan. Following a three-week trial beginning in January 2012, the jury convicted Walker of murder in the first degree of Alajawan and *4unlawful possession of a firearm in February 2012.1 On November 24,2014, Ayanna Brown and Louis Brown filed a wrongful death action against the State of…