HOUSTON v. COOK COUNTY

No. 90 C 3342.

758 F.Supp. 1225 (1990)

Elton HOUSTON, et al., Plaintiffs, v. COOK COUNTY, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

September 24, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Peters, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs.

Cecil A. Partee, State's Atty., Harold McKee, III, Asst. State's Atty., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

SHADUR, District Judge.

This 42 U.S.C. § 1983 ("Section 1983") Complaint by Elton Houston ("Houston") and Robert Brown ("Brown") sets out a factual statement that, taken at face value (as this Court must do), recounts truly outrageous conduct on the part of Assistant State's Attorneys — their nondisclosure and affirmative concealment of exculpatory information that caused Houston and Brown to suffer unjust imprisonment...

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