Jury rules in favor of Pennsylvania state troopers in Jordan Brown civil trial

A jury in Jordan Brown’s civil trial has ruled in favor of the Pennsylvania state troopers who arrested him following the murder of his dad’s pregnant girlfriend in 2009.

Jurors had to decide if state police violated his constitutional rights through malicious prosecution and fabricating evidence. His attorney claimed troopers arrested him less than 24 hours after the murder, without credible evidence and without considering the ex-boyfriend for whom Houk took out a PRF against.

Channel 11′s Cara Sapida was in the courtroom and will have more on Channel 11 News starting at 4 p.m.

Brown spent seven years in juvenile detention for the murder of Kenzie Houk before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court unanimously overturned his murder conviction due to insufficient evidence.

Nearly sixteen years later, he sued the troopers who put him in jail.

In closing arguments on Wednesday, his lawyer said the “11-year-old was arrested at 3:30 am, taken from his home and dropped off at an adult facility.”

Arguing troopers operated in “reckless disregard for Jordan’s rights,” “fabricated evidence” which was his soon to be step-sister’s interview, saying, “but for that evidence he likely would not have been arrested.”

In 2009, Houk was shot in the back of the head in bed, she was nine months pregnant. Houk’s 7-year-old daughter implicated Jordan, saying he killed her before school in her interview with police at 12:30 a.m. Lawyers for Brown argue the two kids were interviewed seven times that day, before she said anything about guns or hearing a “boom.”

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