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ALICEA v. CITY OF PHILADELPHIA
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided December 6, 2022No. 2:22-cv-03437Unknown
1Opinion
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA PEDRO ALICEA : CIVIL ACTION : v. : No. 22-3437 : CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, et al. : MEMORANDUM Chief Judge Juan R. Sánchez December 6, 2022 Plaintiff Pedro Alicea brings this civil rights suit against the City of Philadelphia and ten former Philadelphia Police officers or their estates pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Alicea claims he was wrongfully convicted of a 1985 double murder and spent 31-and-a-half years behind bars for a crime he did not commit. Defendants City of Philadelphia (“City”), Sergeant Joseph Descher,…
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