Legal Opinion
Holland v. City of Chicago
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 23, 2011No. 09-3905PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EVANS, Circuit Judge.
In 1993 Dana Holland was arrested and subsequently charged with sexually assaulting Dionne Stanley. Four years later, in 1997, he was convicted in Cook County Circuit Court after a bench trial. He received a stiff sentence: three consecutive 30-year terms to begin after he completed a 28-year sentence he was serving on an unrelated conviction. In 2002 new DNA testing of a vaginal swab taken from Stanley revealed a match not to Holland, but to his uncle, Gordon Bolden. In 2003 Holland’s conviction was vacated. Holland subsequently sued the City of Chicago and two police…
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