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JACKSON v. CITY OF CLEVELAND

Nos. 17-3840 17-3843.

925 F.3d 793 (2019)

Ricky JACKSON (17-3840); Kwame Ajamu, fka Ronnie Bridgeman, and Wiley Edward Bridgeman (17-3843), Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY OF CLEVELAND; Jerold Englehart; Karen Lamendola, Guardian Ad Litem on behalf of Frank Stoiker; Estate of Eugene Terpay, Administrator; Estate of James T. Farmer, Administrator; Estate of John Staimpel, Administrator, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: May 20, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Elizabeth C. Wang , LOEVY & LOEVY, Boulder, Colorado, for all Appellants. William M. Menzalora , CITY OF CLEVELAND, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellee City of Cleveland. Stephen W. Funk , ROETZEL & ANDRESS, LPA, Akron, Ohio, for Appellees Karen Lamendola and the Estates of Eugene Terpay, James Farmer, and John Staimpel. ON BRIEF: Elizabeth C. Wang , LOEVY & LOEVY, Boulder, Colorado, for Appellant Ricky Jackson. Terry H. Gilbert , Jacqueline C. Greene , FRIEDMAN & GILBERT, Cleveland, Ohio, David E. Mills , THE MILLS LAW OFFICE LLC, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellants Kwame Ajamu and Wiley Bridgeman. William M. Menzalora , CITY OF CLEVELAND, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellee City of Cleveland. Stephen W. Funk , ROETZEL & ANDRESS, LPA, Akron, Ohio, for Appellees Karen Lamendola and the Estates of Eugene Terpay, James Farmer, and John Staimpel.

BUSH, J., delivered the opinion of the court in which ROGERS, J., joined.

AMENDED OPINION

Appellants Ricky Jackson, Wiley Bridgeman, and Kwame Ajamu served a long time in prison for a crime they did not commit. For Jackson, it was thirty-nine years; for Bridgeman, thirty-seven years; for Ajamu, twenty-five years. They each spent close to two and a half of those years on death row...

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