A Chicago man has won a $1-million verdict in a lawsuit that accuses police of rigging a photo lineup to ensure he would be wrongly identified as an armed robbery suspect.
Jermaine Durdin spent nearly two years in the Cook County Jail before he was found not guilty in the 2010 robbery of several hundred dollars from an ice cream truck.
His attorney says the lineup shown to the victim was so suggestive that it was like "putting an arrow over" his client's head.
The robber was described as an African-American teenager with a light complexion. Durdin was the only person with a light complexion in the lineup. The city says it will seek a new trial.
