Legal Opinion
Sykes v. Anderson
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided November 9, 2010No. 08-2088, 08-2090, 08-2118PublishedCited by 585 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KAREN NELSON MOORE, Circuit Judge.
In 2004, the Michigan Court of Appeals overturned Kimberly Sykes’s and Tevya Urquhart’s convictions for the state crimes of “Larceny by Conversion” and “False Report of a Felony” on the grounds that their convictions were based on mere “speculation” and “layers of impermissible inferences.” After their release from prison, Sykes and Urquhart (“the Plaintiffs”) brought 42 U.S.C. § 1983 actions against several Detroit police officers, asserting claims of false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, and denial of due process. The Plaintiffs also brought…
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