Legal Opinion
Vaughn v. Chapman
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 13, 2016No. 16-1065PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
James E. Shadid, Chief Judge.
After state criminal charges against Pompii Vaughn were dismissed, he sued everyone involved in the criminal case: the Illinois county where he was prosecuted; the judge, prosecutor, and public defender involved in the case; and the two Illinois state troopers who conducted the traffic stop that led to his arrest. Vaughn has asserted both federal and state theories in his complaint. He is currently imprisoned, and so the district court screened his complaint as required by 28 U.S.C. § 1915A. It concluded that this action is precluded by the judgment in an…
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