Chicago man awarded more than $25 million for wrongful conviction after 22 years in prison

A federal jury on Friday awarded a Chicago man more than $25 million for a wrongful conviction who served 22 years in prison before being freed in 2016.  

Eddie Bolden was convicted for two 1994 murders that police had alleged were a drug deal gone wrong, but the lawsuit alleged detectives zeroed in on him as a suspect and ignored witnesses who said he was inside a restaurant during the murders. 

"This verdict is a total and complete vindication of Eddie Bolden," his lead attorney Ronald S. Safer told CBS News in a statement Friday.