BLEDSOE v. CARRENO

No. 20-3252.

53 F.4th 589 (2022)

Floyd S. BLEDSOE, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Randy CARRENO; Troy Frost; Jeffrey Herrig; Robert Poppa, Defendants-Appellants, Board of County Commissioners for the County of Jefferson, Kansas; George Johnson; Jim Woods; Terry Morgan; Michael Hayes; Unknown Officers of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department; Unknown Officers of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation; Jim Vanderbilt, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

FILED November 15, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eric Turner , Foulston Siefkin LLP, Overland Park, Kansas ( Michael J. Norton , Foulston Siefkin LLP, Wichita, Kansas, with him on the briefs), for Defendants-Appellants.

Ruth Brown ( Theresa Kleinhaus and Russell Ainsworth with her on the brief), Loevy & Loevy, Chicago, Illinois, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Before HOLMES, Chief Judge, EBEL and EID, Circuit Judges.


Plaintiff-Appellee Floyd Bledsoe spent sixteen years in prison for the November 1999 murder of his fourteen-year-old sister-in-law Camille in Jefferson County, Kansas—a crime he did not commit. In 2015, new DNA testing and a suicide note from Bledsoe's brother Tom supported Bledsoe's longstanding claim that Tom was the...

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