Legal Opinion
Matthew Dykema v. Michael Skoumal
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 17, 2001No. 00-2787PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.
This story grows out of an unsuccessful drug-related transaction in which the plaintiff, Matthew Dykema, a paid informant working with the Metropolitan Area Narcotics Squad (“MANS”), an interjuris-dictional law enforcement group in the Joliet, Illinois area, was shot in the head and seriously wounded by Stephen Stepney in October 1997. Stepney claimed unsuccessfully at his criminal trial, in which he was convicted of the shooting, that he shot Dykema in self defense. Stepney claimed that he did not even know Dykema, but recognized him only as someone he had…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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