By Daily Mail Reporter A man who spent 18 years in prison on Death Row because a Chicago cop withheld or fabricated evidence against him had been seeking $18 million in damages - but was awarded just $80,000. A federal jury handed down their ruling on the lawsuit on Thursday morning over the gaffe, which will be paid for by Chicago taxpayers. Former El Rukn gang member Nathson Fields, who was convicted of a double murder in 1986 but freed at a retrial in 2009, said the decision was a travesty. Now 60, Fields has called on U.S. Attorney Zach Fardon to investigate, The Chicago Sun-Times reported.
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Nathson Fields, a former El Rukn gang member in Chicago's South Side, was convicted of a double murder in 1986 and sentenced to death
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He spent 18 years on Death Row before the conviction was overturned at a retrial in 2009 and he was freed
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After the ruling, a file police and prosecutors had long denied existed was found
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Now 60, Fields used the file to sue, claiming he had been wrongly and intentionally imprisoned
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A federal jury awarded him just $80,000 in damages - less than $5,000 for each year he was behind bars
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His attorney had suggested $18 million was appropriate
@placeholder’ lawyers did not ask jurors for a specific amount in damaged, but hinted that $1 million for every year Fields spent behind bars seemed appropriate.