Legal Opinion
Wells v. Ryker
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 6, 2010No. 08-2906PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TINDER, Circuit Judge.
On the morning of June 22, 1999, Johnny Wells flagged down a Chicago city bus shortly after it had left a stop. As the driver let Wells on the bus, one of the passengers, Belinda Smith, frantically asked the driver to let her off. She ran from the back of the bus with Wells in hot pursuit. Gary Harris who, moments before, had walked Smith to the bus stop, saw that she was being pursued by Wells and moved to intervene. Wells stabbed Harris in the left shoulder as he tried to defend Smith and stabbed Smith in the back multiple times, puncturing her lung, after Wells pushed…
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