A man who spent 32 years on death row for a crime he didn’t commit is suing the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and the officers who were involved in his arrest, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports.
Attorneys for Paul Browning say police ignored evidence that would have proved his innocence in the 1985 stabbing death of Hugo Elsen and instead fabricated evidence to frame him for the crime, even ignoring statements that Elsen made before he died.
Browning appealed his conviction in 2006 but was once again convicted and sentenced to death.
His attorneys said in a release that police misconduct and previously unknown suppressed evidence were uncovered during a final appeal to federal court. Browning was released from prison in August 2019 and exonerated.