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BURGE v. PARISH OF ST. TAMMANY

No. 97-30241.

187 F.3d 452 (1999)

Gerald BURGE, Plaintiff-Appellee-Appellant, v. PARISH OF ST. TAMMANY, et al.; Defendants, St. Tammany Parish District Attorney's Office; Walter Reed, Defendants-Appellees, and Patrick J. Canulette, Sheriff, in his official capacity as Sheriff of the Parish of St. Tammany; Gary Hale, Defendants-Appellants. Gerald Burge, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Patrick Canulette, in his official capacity as Sheriff of the Parish of St. Tammany, et al., Defendants, Patrick Canulette, in his official capacity as Sheriff of St. Tammany, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 25, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark William Smith, Metairie, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Clare W. Trinchard, Leigh Ann Schell, Trinchard & Trinchard, New Orleans, LA, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before DAVIS, JONES and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.

DENNIS, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff Gerald Burge ("Burge") was imprisoned for nearly five years for a crime of which he was later exonerated. In 1986, a sheriff's deputy allegedly facilitated Burge's conviction of the second degree murder of Douglas Frierson ("Frierson") in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, by suppressing a pretrial statement by the victim's mother that would have impeached her perjured testimony that she saw Frierson leave her house with Burge shortly...

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