Legal Opinion
Winslow v. Smith
District Court, D. Nebraska
Decided November 25, 2009No. 4:09CV3147PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
RICHARD G. KOPF, District Judge.
In 1989, the plaintiff, Thomas W. Win-slow, pleaded no contest to aiding and abetting second degree murder in connection with the 1985 death of Helen Wilson in Beatrice, Nebraska. One of his five criminal co-defendants, Joseph E. White, was tried and convicted of first degree murder. White’s conviction was overturned in 2008 after DNA testing conclusively showed that blood and semen found at the crime scene belonged to Bruce Allen Smith, who had no association with White, Winslow, or the other four persons who stood convicted for the Wilson…
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