Legal Opinion
Yarris v. County of Delaware
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided October 2, 2006No. 05-1319PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FUENTES, Circuit Judge.
Nicholas Yarris claims he spent twenty-two years on death row for a kidnaping, rape, and murder he did not commit because Delaware County, its prosecutors, and its detectives obscured and destroyed evidence pointing to the actual killer, manufactured evidence against him, and thwarted his demands for DNA testing. After Yarris’s conviction was overturned and the charges against him were dropped, he filed this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging violations of his rights under the United States Constitution and Pennsylvania law. The prosecutors and detectives moved to…
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