Whitfield v. City of Philadelphia

MEMORANDUM

EDUARDO C. ROBRENO, District Judge.

Before this Court are Rufus Whitfield’s 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (“Section 1983”) claims against the City of Philadelphia, Lynne Abraham (“Abraham”), the Philadelphia District Attorney, and Catherine Marshall (“Marshall”), Chief of the Appeals Unit of the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office (collectively “Defendants”). Whitfield contends that Defendants’ decision to appeal the vacatur of his illegal prison sentence on “technical procedural grounds” violated his constitutional rights under the Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments. Defendants filed…