Man cleared of slaying after year in jail awarded $1.5 mil.

A Cook County jury Wednesday awarded $1.5 million to a man in a wrongful arrest and malicious prosecution case against Chicago Police and the city.

The case stems from the 1998 arrest of Eddie Huggins, then 15, who confessed to fatally stabbing a woman. Evidence showed she wasn't stabbed, his lawyer said.

The teen was acquitted after a year in jail. "It was our position that the police should have known it was their coercive tactics that led to the confession," Lorna Propes, Huggins' attorney, said Thursday.