Legal Opinion
Joseph Lopez v. City of Chicago, Jennifer Delucia, James Delafont, Daniel Jacobs, and Hector Vergara
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 22, 2006No. 05-1877PublishedCited by 136 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
Joseph Lopez was arrested by Chicago police for a murder he did not commit. The murder victim was a twelve-year-old boy, an innocent bystander hit by gunfire in a drive-by shooting. Lopez was arrested without a warrant, although with probable cause — an eyewitness identified him as the shooter.
Following his arrest, the individual defendants — all detectives with the Chicago Police Department — kept Lopez shackled to the wall of a windowless, nine-by-seven-foot interrogation room for four days and nights while they investigated the case. Lopez had nowhere to sleep but a…
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