Legal Opinion
Richard L. Alexander v. City of South Bend, South Bend Police Department, Darrell Gunn, Individually and as Chief of the South Bend Police Department
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 3, 2006No. 04-2535PublishedCited by 83 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
Wrongly convicted of attempted rape and several other crimes, Richard Lee Alexander (“Alexander”) was sentenced to seventy years in prison but released after five when newly discovered DNA evidence exonerated him. Shortly after his release, Alexander sued the City of South Bend, Indiana, its police department, its police chief, and several officers. Alexander alleged that South Bend and its officers violated his constitutional rights by conducting a flawed criminal investigation that led to his wrongful conviction. See 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 1985, and 1986. He accused the…
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