Sufficiency of Evidence.

• Date: 25 January 2021

Byline: Derek Hawkins

7th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: Nathson Fields v. City of Chicago, et al.,

Case No.: 17-3079; 17-3125; 18-1207

Officials: SYKES, Chief Judge, and RIPPLE and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

Focus: Sufficiency of Evidence

These appeals stem from an action brought in 2010 by Nathson Fields, asserting claims under 42 U.S.C. 1983 and state law against the City of Chicago and individuals including several Chicago police officers as well as two former Cook County prosecutors. The lawsuit alleged that the defendants violated Fields's constitutional rights as well as state law in their actions in fabricating evidence and withholding exculpatory evidence in a criminal investigation that resulted in Fields's conviction for murder. After a retrial that resulted in an acquittal, Fields filed this civil suit, and the jury entered an award in his favor on a number of grounds. Two...