Legal Opinion
Douglas Echols v. Spencer Lawton
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided January 25, 2019No. 17-13843PublishedCited by 105 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM PRYOR, Circuit Judge:
This appeal requires us to decide whether a district attorney enjoys qualified immunity from a complaint that he defamed a former prisoner in retaliation for seeking legislative compensation for his wrongful convictions. After Douglas Echols served seven years of imprisonment for kidnapping and rape, a test revealed that his DNA did not match the semen recovered from the victim. Echols presented this evidence to Spencer Lawton, the local district attorney, who had a state crime lab confirm the test results. A Georgia trial court later vacated Echols's convictions.…
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