Legal Opinion
Kwame Ajamu v. City of Cleveland
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided May 20, 2019No. 17-3840; 17-3843PublishedCited by 476 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBush, J., joined by Rogers, J.,
AMENDED OPINION
JOHN K. BUSH, Circuit Judge.
Appellants Ricky Jackson, Wiley Bridgeman, and Kwame Ajamu served a long time in prison for a crime they did not commit. For Jackson, it was thirty-nine years; for Bridgeman, thirty-seven years; for Ajamu, twenty-five years. They each spent close to two and a half of those years on death row.
These men cannot get back any of the time they lost or erase the things they experienced. The best they can hope for is a remedy of damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Ohio law. This appeal concerns whether their complaints state sufficient facts for certain…
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