Legal Opinion
David Ayers v. City of Cleveland
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided December 2, 2014No. 13-3413PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RONALD LEE GILMAN, Circuit Judge.
David Ayers spent 12 years in prison based on a state-court murder conviction that was later overturned. He was freed in 2011 after this court granted his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, finding that the detectives leading the murder investigation — Michael Cipo and Denise Kovach — had violated Ayers’s Sixth Amendment right to counsel by using a fellow inmate to induce Ayers to make allegedly incriminating statements without the assistance of counsel.
In 2012, Ayers filed a § 1983 suit against Cipo, Kovach, and other defendants. Ayers alleged,…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Johnson v. JonesSupreme Court of the United States · 1995
- Sykes v. AndersonCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2010
- Cone v. West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1947
- Ortiz v. JordanSupreme Court of the United States · 2011
- Unitherm Food Systems, Inc. v. Swift-Eckrich, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 2006
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3Cited by22 opinions
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- Ecclesiastical Washington v. Larry DenneyCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2018
- Nikos Kidis v. Jean ReidCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2020
- Ayers v. City of ClevelandOhio Court of Appeals · 2017
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