Nathaniel Hatchett v. City of Detroit

KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judge.

In 1998, a Michigan court convicted Nathaniel Hatchett of carjacking, armed robbery, kidnaping, and first degree criminal sexual conduct. Ten years later, the Innocence Project at Thomas M. Cooley Law School uncovered a DNA report, potentially favorable to the defense, that the prose*569cution had not disclosed to Hatchett. Hatchett was thereafter- released from prison. He later filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in federal district court, alleging that the city of Detroit, the city of Sterling Heights, Macomb County, various individual officers and supervisors, and the…