Legal Opinion
Byron Halsey v. Frank Pfeiffer
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided April 24, 2014No. 13-1549, 13-2236PublishedCited by 585 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
GREENBERG, Circuit Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
The facts underlying this appeal — many of which are undisputed — are hardly believable. Plaintiff-Appellant, Byron Halsey, a young man with limited education, learned that the two small children for whom he had been caring had been tortured and murdered. He wanted to help in the investigation of these heinous crimes but found himself isolated in a police interview room, accused of the murders, told he had failed a polygraph examination (that we now know he passed), and confronted with false incriminating evidence. For a time he…
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