Legal Opinion
Burge v. Parish of St. Tammany
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 25, 1999No. 97-30241PublishedCited by 344 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DENNIS, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiff Gerald Burge (“Burge”) was imprisoned for nearly five years for a crime of which he was later exonerated. In 1986, a sheriffs deputy allegedly facilitated Burge’s conviction of the second degree murder of Douglas Frierson (“Frier-son”) in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, by suppressing a pretrial statement by the victim’s mother that would have impeached her perjured testimony that she saw Frier-son leave her house with Burge shortly béfore the homicide. After that statement and other suppressed exculpatory evidence came to light, Burge was granted a new trial…
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