Legal Opinion
Burton v. St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 24, 2013No. 12-2524PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Circuit Judge.
Darryl Burton was convicted of the 1984 murder of Donald Ball in St. Louis, Missouri. Burton served 24 years in prison before a Missouri court found that his trial had been fundamentally unfair and ordered his release. Burton then filed this action in the district court 1 against the members of the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners and several law enforcement personnel (collectively, “defendants”), asserting that the defendants recklessly or intentionally manipulated evidence and conducted suggestive identification procedures, in violation of his Sixth Amendment…
2Cases cited31 opinions
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- Patterson v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
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3Cited by46 opinions
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