Legal Opinion
Fox v. Hayes
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 7, 2010No. 08-3736PublishedCited by 173 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EVANS, Circuit Judge.
The central event underlying this case evokes what is surely every parent’s most visceral fear. In the early morning hours of June 6, 2004, three-year-old Riley Fox was taken from her home in Wilmington, Illinois. She was bound with duct tape, sexually assaulted, and drowned in a creek. Riley’s parents, Kevin and Melissa Fox, claim that in the midst of their efforts to cope with this trauma, local detectives subjected them to a whole new nightmare. According to the Foxes, the defendants framed Kevin for Riley’s murder, coerced him until he agreed to a “confession” that…
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