Kevin Jones v. Mark Frost

MURPHY, Circuit Judge.

Kevin Jones filed this action four years after an Arkansas jury acquitted him of murdering Nona Dirksmeyer. Jones alleges that the City of Russellville, two police officers named Mark Frost and James Bacon, and Gary Dunn, another man suspected of the murder, conspired to frame him for the crime. The district court 1 concluded that the statute of limitations on Jones’ claims had run and granted summary judgment for the defendants. We affirm.

Nona Dirksmeyer, a nineteen year old student at Arkansas Tech University, was murdered in her Russeville, Arkansas apartment on…