Legal Opinion
Madison Hobley v. Jon Burge, Robert Dwyer, City of Chicago, Appeal Of: Jones Day
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 9, 2006No. 05-1367PublishedCited by 79 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.
This appeal stems from a suit by Madison Hobley against the City of Chicago, former Chicago Police Lt. Jon Burge, and other individual defendants. Hobley served 16 years on death row before he was pardoned in 2003. In his § 1983 suit he alleges that Burge and several subordinates tortured and framed him for an arson crime he did not commit. Burge was fired from the police force in 1993 for allegedly torturing a confession from a murder suspect. The question we decide in this interlocutory appeal is whether Hobley may gain discovery of certain documents created…
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