WINFREY v. ROGERS

No. 16-20702.

882 F.3d 187 (2018)

Richard WINFREY, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Lacy ROGERS, Former San Jacinto County Sheriff; Lenard Johnson, Former San Jacinto County Sheriff's Department Deputy, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Filed February 5, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth Wang, Esq. , Loevy & Loevy, Boulder, CO, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

William S. Helfand , Norman Ray Giles , Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith, L.L.P., Houston, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before JOLLY and ELROD, Circuit Judges, and RODRIGUEZ, District Judge.


Richard Winfrey Jr. ("Junior") was arrested and charged with murder after a botched investigation and various alleged violations of Junior's Fourth Amendment rights. The State tried him on murder charges. The jury acquitted him in fifteen minutes, but only after he had served some 16 months in prison. He brought this...

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