LAWYER FEE- ING FRENZY

Fight for freed man’s $$

A Brooklyn man who spent half his life behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit says the lawyers that got him freed are committing another injustice against him — with a lien that has tied up the hefty settlement he won from the city.

Jonathan Fleming ( pictured), 53, who spent 24 years in prison, settled his case in June, coming away with $ 6.25 million.

But he has yet to see a dime, as the lawyers who in April 2014 got him sprung — Anthony Mayol and Taylor Koss — insist Fleming had agreed they would get at least onethird of any settlement.

Mayol says he worked to free Fleming for 12 years when no one else wanted his case.

But Fleming fired his legal team after they cleared his name and replaced them with two bigname lawyers — Martin Edelman and Paul Callan, a CNN legal analyst— to handle his lawsuit, which sought $ 162 million.

The new lawyers claim that their predecessors refuse to budge on the amount, even though they didn’t have a hand in the civil settlement.

Edelman and Callan have since put a lien on the settlement themselves, saying they want the funds moved into an escrow account accessible to all the lawyers. But they said Mayol and Koss won’t agree.

Fleming couldn’t be reached for comment — because he’s tending to his dying mother, according to Callan.

“Jonathan is held hostage to this attorney fee fight,” Edelman told The Post. “Any client has the right to change lawyers under the law— that can’t be held against them.”

But Fleming’s former lawyers paint a much different picture, saying Edelman and Callan aren’t cooperating with them in reaching a resolution.

“There were no flat refusals on our part” to negotiate, Koss said.

“Between Anthony and myself, we have worked on this case for well over a decade. We are incredibly proud of the work [ and] because of the work we did, we have a lien on the case.”

Both sides and Katherine Riley, a lawyer representing the city Comptroller’s Office, which oversaw Fleming’s settlement, met Thursday in Brooklyn Supreme Court but failed to reach an agreement.

Fleming was convicted of shooting Darryl “Black” Rush, 22, in 1989 in alleged retribution for stealing money. He was exonerated after a hotel receipt proved he was in Orlando, Fla., four hours before Rush was fatally shot in Brooklyn.