Legal Opinion
Travelers Indemnity Company v. Forrest Coun
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 29, 2019No. 17-60291PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GREGG COSTA, Circuit Judge:
Phillip Bivens, Bobby Ray Dixon, and Larry Ruffin spent a collective 83 years in prison for the rape and murder of a woman in Forrest County, Mississippi. Their confessions were coerced and evidence against them fabricated. They were innocent.
By the time DNA evidence exonerated them, Ruffin had died in prison while Dixon and Bivens had developed diseases that killed them not long after they gained the freedom to which they were always entitled. Their estates filed a civil rights lawsuit against Forrest County.
The question in this separate case is whether two of the…
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