Legal Opinion
Keith Harris v. Dennis Kuba and Edward Muzzey
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 18, 2007No. 05-3357PublishedCited by 72 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
In 1979, a jury convicted Keith Harris of armed robbery and attempted murder, and an Illinois judge sentenced him to fifty years in prison. After spending more than twenty years in prison, then-Governor George Ryan granted Harris a full pardon based on innocence and expunged the con viction on January 10, 2003. Harris claims that he was falsely convicted based on the actions of two police officers, and he sued those officers under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that they violated his constitutional right to due process by not turning over three pieces of evidence to the…
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