Legal Opinion
Andre Wallace v. City of Chicago, Kristen Kato and Eugene Roy
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 8, 2006No. 04-3949PublishedCited by 83 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
From the age of fifteen until twenty-three, Andre Wallace was serving time in prison for his alleged participation in a murder. After several appeals, the Illinois Appellate Court found that the police had arrested him without probable cause and that his confession was not sufficiently attenuated from his unlawful arrest. At that point, the prosecution decided to leave well enough alone, and Wallace was released. Only then did Wallace commence the pres*423ent action: he filed a suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in federal court asserting that Detectives Kato and Roy and the City of…
2Cases cited24 opinions
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- Wong Sun v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
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- Chavez v. MartinezSupreme Court of the United States · 2003
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3Cited by83 opinions
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- Bielanski v. County of KaneCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2008
- Cairel v. AlderdenCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2016
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