Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Manitowoc County
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 10, 2011No. 10-2409PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EVANS, Circuit Judge.
A landlord is lucky when he rents a dwelling he owns to a tenant who turns out to be pretty good. When he rents to a tenant who turns out to be fairly bad, he’s unlucky. And then there’s a landlord like Roland Johnson who goes far beyond being merely unlucky. Johnson picked a doozy of a tenant — he rented to a fellow named Steven Avery. Mr. Avery, as most anyone who lives in Wisconsin knows, was the focus of intense media coverage beginning in 2003. It was then, 18 years into serving a sentence on a 1986 Manitowoc (Wisconsin) County rape conviction, that Avery was…
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