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Patterson v. Burge

District Court, N.D. Illinois

Decided August 5, 2004No. 03 C 4433PublishedCited by 26 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Memorandum Opinion and Order

GOTTSCHALL, District Judge.

After being convicted for the 1986 murders of Rafaela and Vincent Sanchez and spending 13 years on death row, plaintiff Aaron Patterson was pardoned by Illinois Governor George Ryan on January 10, 2003. Patterson filed this civil action in June of 2003, asserting that defendants, individually and in conspiracy, violated his rights under the United States Constitution and Illinois state law when they knowingly filed false charges and framed him for the Sanchez murders, tortured and beat him at Chicago Police Department’s Area 2…

2Cases cited66 opinions

  1. Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.Supreme Court of the United States · 1978
  2. Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  3. Heck v. HumphreySupreme Court of the United States · 1994
  4. Swierkiewicz v. Sorema N. A.Supreme Court of the United States · 2002
  5. Albright v. OliverSupreme Court of the United States · 1994

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3Cited by26 opinions

  1. People v. WriceIllinois Supreme Court · 2012
  2. Beaman v. FreesmeyerIllinois Supreme Court · 2019
  3. McCloud v. PrackDistrict Court, W.D. New York · 2014
  4. Smith v. BurgeDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 2016
  5. Tillman v. BurgeDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 2011

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