Legal Opinion
Maurice Lewis v. City of Chicago
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 23, 2019No. 17-1510PublishedCited by 306 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Sykes, Circuit Judge.
Maurice Lewis spent more than two years in pretrial detention in the Cook County Jail based on police reports falsely implicating him for unlawfully possessing a firearm. After the charges against him were dropped, Lewis sued the City of Chicago and six police officers under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 seeking damages for violation of his rights under the Fourth Amendment and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The district court dismissed the suit, ruling that both claims were time-barred. Lewis appealed. Twelve days later the Supreme Court decided Manuel v. City of…
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