Legal Opinion
William Avery v. City of Milwaukee
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 30, 2017No. 15-3175PublishedCited by 118 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
In February 1998 Maryetta Griffin was raped and strangled to death and left in an abandoned garage on Milwaukee’s north side. In 2004 Milwaukee police arrested William Avery for the crime. He was convicted of first-degree homicide and spent six years in prison before DNA evidence proved that Walter Ellis, a serial killer linked to nine similar homicides, was responsible for the murder. In 2010 Avery was released from prison; this wrongful-conviction suit followed. Avery alleged that Milwaukee detectives concocted a fake confession and induced three jailhouse informants to…
2Cases cited41 opinions
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- Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Albright v. OliverSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
- Parratt v. TaylorSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
- United States v. AgursSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
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3Cited by118 opinions
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