STINSON v. GAUGER

Nos. 13-3343, 13-3346, 13-3347.

799 F.3d 833 (2015)

Robert Lee STINSON, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. James GAUGER, Lowell T. Johnson, and Raymond Rawson, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 25, 2015.

Corrected August 26, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Kanovitz , Attorney, Loevy & Loevy, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Grant F. Langley , Attorney, Jan A. Smokowicz , Attorney, Milwaukee City Attorney's Office, Adam J. Freed , Attorney, W. Patrick Sullivan , Attorney, Siesennop & Sullivan, Milwaukee, WI, Jason J. Franckowiak , Attorney, Otjen, Gendelman, Zitzer, Johnson & Weir, S.C., Waukesha, WI, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before BAUER, MANION, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.


Robert Lee Stinson spent 23 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. He was exonerated by DNA evidence and now sues the lead detective and two forensic odontologists who investigated the murder and later testified at trial. The odontologists were the key witnesses for the prosecution. They testified that bite marks on...

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