Moorer v. City of Chicago, The

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION THOMAS MOORER, Plaintiff, No. 18 CV 3796 v. Judge Manish S. Shah JOHN VALKNER, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER Plaintiff Thomas Moorer spent almost seven years in pretrial detention, accused of murdering Edward Ramos. A jury found him not guilty. He alleges that officers of the Chicago Police Department didn’t have probable cause to detain him for the murder. There are gaps in the record as to how Moorer became a suspect; police officers lost the victim’s cellphone; other evidence suggested…