FOGLE v. SOKOL

No. 19-1066.

957 F.3d 148 (2020)

Lewis James FOGLE v. John SOKOL, Pennsylvania State Trooper; Michael Steffee, Pennsylvania State Trooper; Donald Bechwith, Pennsylvania State Police Trooper; Joseph Stephen, Pennsylvania State Police Trooper; John Bardroff, Corporal; Andrew Mollura, Corporal; Glenn Walp, Lieutenant, in their individual capacities; County of Indiana, Pennsylvania; Gregory Olson, Indiana County District Attorney, in his official and individual capacity; William Martin, Indiana County Assistant District Attorney, in his individual capacity, County of Indiana, Pennsylvania, Gregory Olson and William Martin, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Filed: April 20, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anna Benvenutti Hoffmann, Esq. , Emma K. Freudenberger, Esq. , Mary K. McCarthy, Esq. , [ARGUED], Peter J. Neufeld, Esq. , Neufeld Scheck & Brustin, 99 Hudson Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10013, Thomas J. Farrell, Esq. , Farrell & Reisinger, 300 Koppers Building, 436 Seventh Avenue, Suite 300, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, Attorneys for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Michael E. Kennedy, Esq. , Office of Attorney General of Pennsylvania, 1251 Waterfront Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, Attorney for Defendants Donald Bechwith, Pennsylvania State Police Trooper; John Bardroff, Corporal; John Sokol, Pennsylvania State Police Trooper; Andrew Molllura, Corporal; Michael Steffee, Pennsylvania State Police Trooper; and Glenn Walp, Lieutenant, in their individual capacities.

Marie M. Jones, Esq. , [ARGUED] Maria N. Pipak, Esq. , Jones Passodelis, 707 Grant Street, Gulf Tower, Suite 3410, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, Attorney for Defendants-Appellants County of Indiana; Gregory Olson, Indiana County District Attorney, in his official and individual capacity; and William Martin, Indiana County Assistant District Attorney, in his individual capacity.

Before: KRAUSE, MATEY, Circuit Judges, and QUIÑONES ALEJANDRO, District Judge.


OPINION

Lewis James Fogle spent more than three decades in prison for a crime he says he did not commit. Now free, he alleges that his incarceration was no accident, sketching a widespread conspiracy by law enforcement officials to violate his civil rights. Implicated in this alleged scheme are former Indiana County...

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