A federal trial court must look again at its award of prejudgment interest to a man who was awarded millions in damages by a jury after a wrongful conviction.
Eddie Bolden’s $7.6 million prejudgment interest award must be recalculated because “only Bolden’s past damages (those he suffered while in prison) and
not his future damages (those he suffered after release) could serve as a basis for an interest award,” the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit said.
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