Ex-Death Row inmate can't collect jury award

A federal appeals court has ruled a former Chicago police officer who was convicted of murder and kidnapping can't collect on a $6.5 million judgment against the FBI.

Steve Manning was given the death penalty on a murder conviction in Illinois and a life sentence for a kidnapping in Missouri. Both convictions were overturned.

In January 2005, a jury determined agents Robert Buchan and Gary Miller violated Manning's right to a fair trial in the 1991 murder case in Illinois and that Buchan violated those rights in a 1992 kidnapping trial in Missouri.

On Monday, the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling by U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly vacating the award. Kennelly in December 2006 ruled Manning's failure to win a lawsuit against the federal government nullified the earlier jury decision in his favor against the FBI agents.