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SAVORY v. CANNON

No. 17-3543.

912 F.3d 1030 (2019)

Johnnie Lee SAVORY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. William CANNON, Sr., as Special Representative for Charles Cannon, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 7, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven Edwards Art, Attorney, Anthony Balkissoon, Attorney, Loevy & Loevy, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Lisa M. Meador, Attorney, Sara J. Schroeder, Attorney, John J. Timbo, Attorney, Sotos Law Firm, P.C., Itasca, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

James G. Sotos, Attorney, Sotos Law Firm, P.C., Itasca, IL, for Defendants-Appellees William Cannon, Sr., as special representative for Charles Cannon, Marcella Brown Teplitz, John Fiers, Charles E. Bowers.

Before Rovner, Hamilton, and Barrett, Circuit Judges.

Johnnie Lee Savory spent thirty years in prison for a 1977 double murder that he insists he did not commit. Even after his release from prison, he continued to assert his innocence. Thirty-eight years after his conviction, the governor of Illinois pardoned Savory. Nearly two years after the pardon, Savory filed a civil rights...

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