PATTERSON v. BURGE

No. 03 C 4433.

328 F.Supp.2d 878 (2004)

Aaron PATTERSON, Plaintiff, v. Former Chicago Police Lt. Jon BURGE # 338; former CPD Sgt. John Byrne # 1453; former CPD Detectives James Pienta # 10063; William Marley # 9886; Raymond Madigan # 1471; William Pedersen # 8553; Daniel McWeeny # 14367; and Joseph Danzyl # 12568; Assistant Cook County State's Attorney Peter Troy, former Assistant Cook County State's Attorney William Lacy; Cook County State's Attorney Richard Devine; Chicago Police Superintendent Terry Hillard; former Chicago Police Superintendent Leroy Martin; former OPS Director Gayle Shines; former counsel to the Superintendent Thomas Needham; the City of Chicago; Cook County, Illinois and its Cook County State's Attorneys' Office, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.

August 5, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Edward Deutsch, G. Flint Taylor, Jr., Joey L. Mogul, People's Law Office, Standish E. Willis, Law Office of Standish E. Willis, Chicago, IL, Demitrus Evans, Evanston, IL, for Plaintiff.

Richard Thomas Sikes, Jr., Oran Fresno Whiting, Michael Paul Kornak, Terrence J. Sheahan, Jennifer Louise Koger, Richard Bruce Levy, Freeborn & Peters, Patrick T. Driscoll, Jr., Louis R. Hegeman, Paul Anthony Castiglione, Cook County State's Attorney, Patricia Campbell Bobb, Patricia C. Bobb & Associates, William J. Holloway, Steven M. Puiszis, Joseph R. Curcio, Ltd., Terrence Michael Burns, Harry N. Arger, Paul A. Michalik, Daniel Matthew Noland, Dykema, Gossett, Rooks, Pitts PLLC, Martin Peter Greene, Eileen Marie Letts, Kevin Thomas Lee, Terry Miller, Greene & Letts, Chicago, IL, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

GOTTSCHALL, District Judge.

After being convicted for the 1986 murders of Rafaela and Vincent Sanchez and spending 13 years on death row, plaintiff Aaron Patterson was pardoned by Illinois Governor George Ryan on January 10, 2003. Patterson filed this civil action in June of 2003, asserting that defendants, individually and in conspiracy, violated his rights under the United States Constitution and Illinois state law when...

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