Concealment – Prejudice

By: Derek Hawkins//March 15, 2017//

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7^th Circuit court of Appeals

Case Name: Eddie Gill v. City of Milwaukee, et al

Case No.: 16-2846

Officials: BAUER, FLAUM, and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.

Focus: Concealment – Prejudice

In February 2013, Eddie Gill confessed to and was charged with the murder of Jordin Crawley. Gill spent just over a year in jail awaiting trial. The charges were dropped, however, after a Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge suppressed Gill’s confession. Gill then filed a series of federal and state law claims in federal district court against the City of Milwaukee, Chief of Police Edward Flynn, and six Milwaukee police detectives. The district court entered judgment on the pleadings under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(c) in favor of Defendants on all of Gill’s federal claims and dismissed the state law claims without prejudice. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

Affirmed

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Attorney Derek A. Hawkins is the managing partner at Hawkins Law Offices LLC, where he heads up the firm’s startup law practice. He specializes in business formation, corporate governance, intellectual property protection, private equity and venture capital funding and mergers & acquisitions. Check out the website at www.hawkins-lawoffices.com or contact them at 262-737-8825.

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