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Prosecutor Asks Supreme Court to Block Suit by Wrongfully Convicted Youth

Posted May 15, 2008, 12:02 pm CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss

An Ohio prosecutor is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to block a civil lawsuit against her for the role she played in the conviction of a 12-year-old boy that was later overturned.

The Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in January (PDF) that prosecutor Amanda Spies of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, could be sued for damages in connection with allegations the boy was prosecuted based on a faulty confession. The ruling also noted Spies’ insistence to a military recruiter that the youth was guilty years after she lost the case, the Chicago Tribune reports.

The youth, 12-year-old Anthony Harris of New Philadelphia, Ohio, had confessed to the murder… Continue reading...

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