Legal Opinion
Refugio Ruiz-Cortez v. Glenn Lewellen
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 26, 2019No. 18-1078PublishedCited by 127 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
St. Eve, Circuit Judge.
Glenn Lewellen, a dirty cop with the Chicago Police Department (CPD), arrested Refugio Ruiz-Cortez for possessing cocaine. Lewellen served as the key witness at the trial, where Ruiz-Cortez was convicted. Ruiz-Cortez then spent a decade in prison before the federal government discovered Lewellen's crimes, which included drug conspiracy, racketeering, and, according to the government, perjury at Ruiz-Cortez's trial. The government prosecuted Lewellen and moved to vacate Ruiz-Cortez's conviction, recognizing that without Lewellen's testimony there was no evidence to…
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