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AVERY v. CITY OF MILWAUKEE

No. 15-3175.

847 F.3d 433 (2017)

William D. AVERY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF MILWAUKEE, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 30, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Janine L. Hoft , John L. Stainthorp , Ben H. Elson , Attorneys, PEOPLE'S LAW OFFICE, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Jan A. Smokowicz , Attorney, MILWAUKEE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, Milwaukee, WI, for Defendants-Appellees.

Steven Edwards Art , Heather Lewis Donnell , Samuel D. Heppell , Gayle Horn , Arthur Loevy , Jon C. Loevy , David B. Owens , Attorneys, Amicus Curiae for ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS, CIVIL RIGHTS AND POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT OF THE EDWIN F. MANDEL LEGAL AID CLINIC.

Before Wood, Chief Judge, Sykes and Hamilton, Circuit Judges.

In February 1998 Maryetta Griffin was raped and strangled to death and left in an abandoned garage on Milwaukee's north side. In 2004 Milwaukee police arrested William Avery for the crime. He was convicted of first-degree homicide and spent six years in prison before DNA evidence proved that Walter Ellis, a serial killer linked...

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