Legal Opinion
Rivera Petty v. City of Chicago
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 9, 2014No. 12-3303PublishedCited by 274 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.
Timothy Petty was arrested on the suspicion that he, along with another person, shot and killed Albert Council and wounded two others. Petty was identified as the shooter and was indicted for murder, but was found not guilty after a bench trial. After his acquittal, Petty filed a suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the City of Chicago and individual Chicago Police Department officers arguing that the officers violated his due process rights by intentionally mishandling the shooting investigation and prosecuting him for murder based on falsified evidence. Specifically,…
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