This verdict might not be the last payday for Hill.
-- If you were put away for 17 years for a crime you didn't commit, how much does the system owe you?James HillAnd as CBS 2's Chris Tye reported Tuesday night, this verdict might not be the last payday for Hill.
A jury ruled Tuesday that those failures were civil right violations that were so over the top – costing Hill so much of his life – that he was owed $25.5 million.The first chapter of James Hill's book was written 42 years ago. Hill, then 17, was convicted on a rape case that sent him to prison for what ended up being 17 years.
On Tuesday, after just three hours of deliberation, a jury decided the City of Hammond, Indiana – which handled Hill's investigation – should pay him that $25.5 million verdict for that failure of the system. In both cases against Hill, authorities violated what is called The Brady Rule - failing to hand over evidence. Such a failure in two cases was a first in the U.S. justice system.But that has changed.Hill said there was never a dollar amount he had in mind that he thought he was owed. But Tye did ask him how it would change his life.
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