U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Ricky Jackson v. City of Cleveland
Panel
The judges who heard this appeal.
- Judge John Kenneth Bush
- Judge Damon Jerome Keith
Case history
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March 28, 2019decided Decision issued in Ricky Jackson v. City of Cleveland
Opinions and writings
JOHN K. BUSH, Circuit Judge. 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. These men cannot get back any of the time they lost or erase the things…
RECOMMENDED FOR FULL-TEXT PUBLICATION Pursuant to Sixth Circuit I.O.P. 32.1(b) File Name: 19a0055p.06 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT RICKY JACKSON (17-3840); KWAME AJAMU, fka ┐ Ronnie Bridgeman, and WILEY EDWARD BRIDGEMAN │ (17-3843), │…
KEITH, Circuit Judge, concurring. CONCURRENCE I concur in the Court's opinion, except for Section II(C)(2) regarding Officer Stoiker's entitlement to qualified immunity. This case presents many factual disputes, and we are sending it back to the district court for trial to determine whether Officer Stoiker committed constitutional violations. Our circuit has been cl…