Legal Opinion
Ted Bradford v. Joseph Scherschligt
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 25, 2015No. 14-35651PublishedCited by 68 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HAWKINS, Circuit Judge:
Ted Bradford was convicted in 1996 of residential burglary and rape. In 2008, after Bradford served his full ten-year sentence, the Washington State courts vacated his conviction based largely on newly-available DNA testing, which excluded him as a contributor of genetic material found at the crime scene. Prosecutors then proceeded to retry Bradford, which resulted in his acquittal in 2010. In 2013, a few days before the three-year anniversary of that acquittal, but more than four years after his conviction was vacated, Bradford filed the underlying 42 U.S.C. §…
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