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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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Exonerated suspect

NEW ORLEANS — A federal court in Louisiana declined to find a former homicide detective enjoys immunity on an exonerated suspect’s claims that he fabricated the suspect’s “coerced confessions” to the stabbing deaths of two gay men in 1980. Whether the detective participated in the coercion is disputed, and a jury will need to find whether he showed “reckless or callous indifference” to the accused’s civil rights.

Read the ruling here.

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