ARMSTRONG v. ASHLEY

No. 18-30126.

918 F.3d 419 (2019)

Andrea ARMSTRONG, Executrix of the Estate of Glen Ford, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Don ASHLEY; Gary Alderman; Gary Pittman; Everett T. Rushing; Billy Lockwood, Wrongly Identified as Estate of Billy Lockwood; Frank Datcher; Glynn Mitchell; Rodney Price, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED March 11, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony Balkissoon, Esq. , Steven Edwards Art , Samuel D. Heppell , Jonathan Isaac Loevy , Mark Loevy-Reyes , Loevy & Loevy, Chicago, IL, Mummi Suleiman Ibrahim , Ibrahim & Associates, William Brock Most , New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Edwin H. Byrd, III , Zachary Alexander Wilkes , Pettiette, Armand, Dunkelman, Woodley, Byrd & Cromwell, L.L.P., Shreveport, LA, Defendants-Appellants.

Before SMITH, DUNCAN, and ENGELHARDT, Circuit Judges.


Glenn Ford was wrongly convicted of murder and spent 30 years in solitary confinement on death row before being fully exonerated, with all charges dropped. Ford sued the Defendants-Appellants1 (as well as other defendants not included in this appeal), all of whom were law enforcement...

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