STINSON v. GAUGER

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

868 F.3d 516 (2017)

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.

Reargued en banc February 9, 2016.

Decided August 18, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Grant F. Langley , Jan A. Smokowicz , Attorneys, MILWAUKEE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, for Defendant-Appellant James Gauger.

W. Patrick Sullivan , M. Susan Maloney , Attorney, SIESENNOP & SULLIVAN, Milwaukee, WI, for Defendant-Appellant Raymond Rawson.

Jason J. Franckowiak , Attorney, OTJEN, GENDELMAN, ZITZER, JOHNSON & WEIR, S.C., Waukesha, WI, for Defendant-Appellant Lowell T. Johnson.

Before Wood, Chief Judge, and Bauer, Posner, Flaum, Easterbrook, Manion, Kanne, Rovner, Williams, Sykes, and Hamilton, Circuit Judges.


Robert Stinson spent twenty-three years in jail for a murder he did not commit. No eyewitness testimony or fingerprints connected him to the murder. Two dentists testified as experts that Stinson's dentition matched the teeth marks on the victim's body, and a jury found Stinson guilty. After DNA evidence helped exonerate...

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