JIMENEZ v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 12-2779.

732 F.3d 710 (2013)

Thaddeus JIMENEZ, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CITY OF CHICAGO, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 7, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jon C. Loevy , Attorney, Loevy & Loevy, Chicago, IL, Locke E. Bowman, III , Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Jonathon D. Byrer , Attorney, Benna Ruth Solomon , Attorney, City of Chicago Law Department, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before BAUER, EASTERBROOK, and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges.


HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.

When he was fifteen years old, plaintiff Thaddeus Jimenez was convicted of a murder he did not commit. He spent sixteen years in prison before he was exonerated. Jimenez then filed this lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law against the City of Chicago and a former Chicago police detective, Jerome Bogucki, for violating his constitutional right to due process of law and for malicious prosecution. In January 2012, a jury found for...

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