Legal Opinion
McGhee v. Pottawattamie County, Iowa
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided November 21, 2008No. 07-1453, 07-1524PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RILEY, Circuit Judge.
In 1978, Curtis W. McGhee Jr. (McGhee) and Terry Harrington (Harrington) were convicted of murdering John Schweer, a retired police department captain who was working as a security guard. McGhee and Harrington were each sentenced to life imprisonment. In 2002, the Iowa Supreme Court reversed Harrington’s conviction and remanded for a new trial, finding the prosecutor committed a Brady 2 violation by failing to disclose evidence of an alternative suspect. The current prosecutor, Matthew Wilber (Wilber), concluded it would be impossible to retry Harrington and also agreed…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- Buckley v. FitzsimmonsSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
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- Zaher Zahrey v. Martin E. CoffeyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2000
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