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JOHNSON v. SPENCER

No. 17-8089, No. 17-8090, No. 17-8091.

950 F.3d 680 (2020)

Andrew J. JOHNSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Alan W. SPENCER, Defendant-Appellee. Rocky Mountain Innocence Center, Amicus Curiae. Andrew J. Johnson, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. City of Cheyenne, a governmental entity; Don Pierson, Chief of Police for the Cheyenne Police Department; Bill Stanford, Cheyenne Police Detective, a/k/a George W. Stanford; Cheyenne Police Department, Defendants-Appellees. Rocky Mountain Innocence Center, Amicus Curiae. Andrew J. Johnson, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. City of Cheyenne, a municipal corporation; Doe 1, the personal representative of the decedent's estate of George W. Stanford, an individual; Alan W. Spencer, an individual; Does 2-20, inclusive, Defendants-Appellees. Rocky Mountain Innocence Center, Amicus Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

FILED February 13, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert P. Schuster , Robert P. Schuster P.C., Jackson, Wyoming ( Bradley L. Booke , Robert P. Schuster P.C., Jackson, Wyoming, and Thomas N. Long and Aaron J. Lyttle , Long Reimer Winegar Beppler LLP, Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Laurence O. Masson , Law Office of Laurence O. Masson, Berkeley, California, with him on the briefs), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Justin A. Daraie , Senior Assistant Attorney General ( Peter K. Michael , Attorney General, Daniel E. White , Deputy Attorney General, and Philip M. Donoho , Assistant Attorney General, with him on the brief), Office of the Attorney General for the State of Wyoming, Cheyenne, Wyoming, for Defendants-Appellees, Alan W. Spencer and George W. Stanford.

Norman Ray Giles , Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, LLP, Houston, Texas, ( William S. Helfand , Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, LLP, Houston, Texas, and J. Mark Stewart , Davis & Cannon, LLP, Cheyenne, Wyoming, with him on the brief), for Defendant-Appellee, City of Cheyenne.

Elliot H. Scherker , Greenberg Traurig, P.A., Miami, Florida, filed an amicus curiae brief for the Rocky Mountain Innocence Center in support of Plaintiff-Appellant.

Before HOLMES, McKAY, and CARSON, Circuit Judges.

In 2013, a Wyoming court declared Andrew Johnson actually innocent of crimes for which he was then incarcerated. In 2017, after his release, Mr. Johnson brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the City of Cheyenne, Wyoming ("Cheyenne"), the Estate of Detective George Stanford ("the Estate"),1

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