Legal Opinion
Dukes v. City of Albany
District Court, N.D. New York
Decided February 6, 2018No. 1:17–CV–865PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DAVID N. HURD, United States District Judge
I. INTRODUCTION
On November 17, 1998, relying on a coerced confession supported by false police testimony, an Albany County jury wrongly convicted plaintiff Carl Dukes ("Dukes" or "plaintiff") of murdering Erik Mitchell ("Mitchell"), a college student whose apartment plaintiff helped burglarize four months beforehand. Plaintiff was exonerated of Mitchell's murder in 2016 after another man confessed the precise details of the crime.
On August 7, 2017, Dukes brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and related state law asserting claims for malicious…
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