Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Dossey
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 12, 2008No. 06-2950PublishedCited by 169 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EVANS, Circuit Judge.
In March 2002, the house Mary Johnson was leasing in Hanover Park, Illinois, sustained severe fire damage. Johnson submitted a claim for her losses to her insurer, The Allstate Insurance Company. Rather than having her claim paid, however, Johnson was arrested five months later and charged with arson. She was in jail for about a month before she posted bail. In January 2004, she was tried and convicted. She was sentenced to 9 1/2 years in prison, where she remained from January 23, 2004, through February 10, 2005, when her court-appointed counsel discovered a previously…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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