Legal Opinion
EVANS v. NEWARK CITY
District Court, D. New Jersey
Decided March 16, 2023No. 2:14-cv-00120Unknown
1Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY LEE EVANS, Civ. No. 14-00120 (KM) (MAH) Plaintiff, OPINION v. CITY OF NEWARK, et al., Defendants. KEVIN MCNULTY, U.S.D.J.: In August 1978, five teenage boys from Newark disappeared. More than thirty years later, in 2010, plaintiff Lee Evans and his cousin, Philander Hampton, were charged with their murder. The charges came after Hampton allegedly confessed to police that he and Evans forced the boys into the closet of a home, nailed the closet shut, and set the house on fire. Hampton pled guilty to the charges, while Evans was tried…
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