Jury finds former Durham police investigator fabricated evidence to convict man of murder
A federal court jury on Wednesday awarded $6 million to a man who spent 21 years in prison for two murders he didn't commit, finding that a retired Durham police investigator had fabricated evidence against him.
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Darryl Anthony Howard was convicted in 1995 on two counts of second-degree murder for the 1991 deaths of Doris Washington and her 13-year-old daughter, Nishonda.
Howard sued Durham police in 2017, alleging that investigator Darryl Dowdy, who had retired by that time, had violated his civil rights.
Howard's attorneys presented evidence during the three-week trial that Dowdy had supplied details of the murders to informants so their statements to police and trial testimony would implicate Howard.
Nick Ellis, one of Dowdy's attorneys, said he was disappointed in the verdict but respects the jury's decision.
"We have confidence in the investigation Detective Dowdy conducted," Ellis said.
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