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HECK v. HUMPHREY

No. 89-1323.

997 F.2d 355 (1993)

Roy HECK, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. James HUMPHREY, Dearborn County Prosecutor, Robert Ewbank, Attorney, and Michael Krinoph, Indiana State Police Investigator, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Resubmitted March 1, 1993.

Decided July 1, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kathleen M. O'Laughlin, Keck, Mahin & Cate, Chicago, IL, for plaintiff-appellant.

David M. Wallman, Deputy Atty. Gen., Office of the Atty. Gen., Federal Litigation, Indianapolis, IN, for defendants-appellees.

Before CUMMINGS, POSNER, and MANION, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This pro se prisoner civil rights suit charges that the defendants engineered the plaintiff's conviction for murder by, among other wrongful conduct, the destruction of exculpatory evidence. Compensatory and punitive damages were sought. The plaintiff made no effort to exhaust his state remedies against wrongful conviction, however, and this was, as the district court ruled in dismissing the suit, a...

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