Legal Opinion
Lee Dell Walker v. William Cahalan
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided November 5, 1976No. 75-2328PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN W. PECK, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff, Lee Dell Walker, appeals from the order of the district court granting defendants’ Motions for Summary Judgment.
This action for damages had it genesis in plaintiff-appellant’s 1954 conviction for the first degree murder of grocery store owner John Drousitious. At trial, Walker’s con fession was introduced into evidence. On July 12, 1954, appellant was sentenced to life imprisonment.- On May 15, 1972, after 18 years of attacks on the conviction in general and the voluntariness of the confession in particular, a judge of the Recorder’s Court for the…
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