Legal Opinion
Thomas Winslow v. Richard Smith
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided October 15, 2012No. 11-2882, 11-2883, 11-2884, 11-2903PublishedCited by 118 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SHEPHERD, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs Ada Joann Taylor, Thomas Winslow, James Dean, and Kathleen Gonzalez (collectively “Plaintiffs”) were convicted in 1989 for participating in the 1985 rape and murder of Helen Wilson in Beatrice, Nebraska. However, in 2008, DNA testing established that the semen and type B blood found in Wilson’s apartment were from Bruce Allen Smith, an individual who had no connection to Plaintiffs. After receiving full pardons from the Nebraska Pardons Board, Plaintiffs individually filed causes of action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the county prosecutor and…
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