Legal Opinion
Armstrong v. Daily
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 11, 2015No. Nos. 13-3424, 13-3482PublishedCited by 120 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.
Ralph Armstrong was imprisoned for 29 years for the rape and murder of Charise Kamps — a crime that he maintains he did not commit. His conviction was set aside in 2005, and in 2009 a Wisconsin state judge dismissed the charges entirely because the prosecution had destroyed key exculpatory evidence, rendering a fair trial impossible. Armstrong then brought this civil suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 seeking damages from the prosecutor and state crime laboratory technicians who he alleges deprived him of his liberty without due process of law by destroying exculpatory…
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