[Download] "Burge v. St. Tammany Parish District Attorneys Office" by Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Burge v. St. Tammany Parish District Attorneys Office
- Author : Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 25, 1999
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 97 KB
Description
Plaintiff Gerald Burge ("Burge") was imprisoned for nearly five years for a crime of which he was later exonerated. In 1986, a sheriffs deputy allegedly facilitated Burges conviction of the second degree murder of Douglas Frierson ("Frierson") in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, by suppressing a pretrial statement by the victims mother that would have impeached her perjured testimony that she saw Frierson leave her house with Burge shortly before the homicide. After that statement and other suppressed exculpatory evidence came to light, Burge was granted a new trial and acquitted by a jury in 1992.