A man who spent 22 years in prison after he was wrongly convicted of rape is entitled to an $18.5 million payout from the city, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.

The court tossed a US District judge’s decision to overrule Alan Newton’s 2010 jury award — saying his due process rights had been denied, according to United States Court of Appeals documents.

“We’re ecstatic…This is a total victory for Mr. Newton,” his lawyer John Schutty III said.

In 2011, US District Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled that the city had not violated Newton’s civil rights when it failed to promptly hand over DNA evidence he requested while behind bars.

But the appeals court ruled Thursday that the city had in fact “acted with recklessness and deliberate indifference” when it claimed it lost the evidence in 1994.

Newton was convicted of raping a woman in an abandoned Bronx building in 1984 but cleared of the crime in 2006 after the city finally handed over evidence that proved his innocence.

“We are reviewing the decision,” a spokesman for the city’s law department said. ​