Horn v. New Haven

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT VERNON HORN, Plaintiff, v. No. 3:18-cv-1502 (JAM) CITY OF NEW HAVEN, et al., Defendants. ORDER DENYING DEFENDANT JAMES STEPHENSON’S MOTION TO DISMISS Plaintiff Vernon Horn spent more than 17 years in prison following a jury trial and his conviction in Connecticut state court on charges stemming from a robbery and murder at a convenience store in 1999. After an intensive post-conviction investigation exposed exculpatory evidence, a Connecticut state court vacated his convictions last year. Horn in turn has filed this federal civil rights…