Miguel had been ironing clothes in a bedroom. After he heard the shots, Miguel looked into the living room, saw Edward struggling with the man, and ran out the back door.
Edwin heard the struggle, saw a man on top of Edward and Martinez, and ran to assist. The man hit Edwin in the head with the gun, but Edwin punched the assailant, causing the man to drop the weapon. Disarmed, the man ran out of the apartment the way he'd come. Edwin followed, but outside he saw a second man pointing a gun at him.
The first man told his accomplice to start shooting. Edwin lunged backwards into the doorway while Edward came past him, into the line of fire. Edward was shot in the chest. The man and his two accomplices fled. Edward died later that night. Officers of the Chicago Police Department arrived at the scene minutes after the shooting.
They canvassed the area while forensic investigators gathered physical evidence. The witnesses were separated and their interviews were conducted individually. In general, 6 the six witnesses described the initial shooter as a Black man wearing jeans, a mask of some sort on the lower half of his face, between twenty-five and thirty-six years old, five foot ten to six foot three inches tall, and weighing between and pounds.
At in the morning on August 28, detective Valkner interviewed Edwin. Edwin said that he recognized the man who entered the apartment. He said that his brother had sold drugs to the man, who went by the nickname, "Boom," and that a dispute had arisen over an unpaid debt. Edwin said that he had seen Boom on two earlier occasions, and that Boom made threatening phone calls to his brother during the week before the shooting.
Edwin told detectives that they could find Boom's contact information in Edward's cell phone. A cell phone was recovered at the scene of the crime. A forensic investigator collected and transported physical evidence to his office, id. The investigator gave the phone to McDermott. Having finished his work at the scene, McDermott returned to the police headquarters at around a.
While McDermott said that he or someone else should have documented and inventoried the phone, it was never inventoried, and the record is silent as to what became of it after the investigator gave the phone to McDermott.
But police reports show that Edwin identified a cell phone as belonging to his brother, and that Edwin and Valkner searched the contacts of the phone and located an entry for "Boom" associated with the number Later, however, Edwin said that he assumed his brother's phone had been password-protected, couldn't remember going through the contacts in Edward's phone with detectives, and didn't know what happened to Edward's cellphones after the "incident.
Valkner couldn't remember looking at a phone with Edwin or who had given him the phone. A CPD officer ran a nickname search for "Boom" in a database. Detectives McDermott, Cardo, and Valkner also couldn't remember which officer made the database search.
When Moorer's public defenders made a search for Boom in the same database six years later, they turned up nearly results, including Moorer. Detectives gave Edwin two books or "a bunch of papers" that included the photographs of six people on each page.
When that picture was taken, Moorer weighed between and pounds, which was significantly more than the pounds that he weighed in August After looking at the photographs for twenty to thirty minutes, Edwin identified Moorer as having been involved in the shooting. The detectives asked Edwin to confirm his identification, and had him circle the picture of Moorer and sign his name under the image.
An unknown CPD officer created a photo array of six photographs, including Moorer's. Detective Tedeschi logged into the CPD's mug shot database, used to create photo arrays, and performed his first command at a. The computer system could create photo arrays in several ways: based on a suspect's mugshot, demographic information, or by inputting a specific name or identifying number. It generally took ten to twenty minutes to put together a photo array. Once created, a photo array could be saved, but if it was not, there was no way to tell whether the system generated a photo array.
Tedeschi said that he didn't believe he had made the array in this case. No one saved the photo array including Moorer in the system, see id. In the photo array, Moorer's photograph appears in the middle position of the bottom row, and the fillers appear to be the same race and sex as Moorer.
Hernandez, Edwin, Kindelan, Rivera, and Miguel viewed the photo array that included Moorer's photograph: Hernandez viewed the array at a. Before seeing the array, each witness separately signed an advisory form, which said that a suspect wouldn't necessarily be in the spread and that the witness wasn't required to make an identification.
At no time were the witnesses told who to identify, or where Moorer was in the array. All five witnesses positively identified Moorer as being involved in the home invasion.
After Kindelan identified Moorer, detective Leal circled Moorer's photograph on Kindelan's copy of the array in order to verify Kindelan's identification. After returning to the station at a. Augustus came to the station where she was briefed on the investigation, reviewed police reports, and reinterviewed witnesses with McDermott.
After the interviews, at a. McDermott didn't pressure Augustus to issue the alert or recommend charges. McDermott's shift ended, and detectives Cardo and Gonzalez took over the investigation.
The detectives went to Moorer's last known address and set up surveillance. At about p. Police officers stopped the vehicle, and Moorer was taken into custody and brought to the police station.
Moorer agreed to speak with detectives. He denied being involved in the crime and said that he had been home the day of the shooting with his sisters and his sisters' children. Cardo and Gonzalez learned that Moorer's nickname was "Boomer," rather than Boom. The detectives didn't see any injuries on Moorer's body or blood on his clothing or his person, see id.
Moorer didn't own a cell phone, didn't have one in his possession when he was arrested, and police officers never found a connection between Moorer and the number for Boom.
Officers never secured a search warrant or asked to search Moorer's home. Cardo and Gonzalez called Edwin, Miguel, Walter, Kindelan, Hernandez, and Rivera, and asked them to return to the station to view an in-person lineup.
Some of the witnesses sat together at the police station before viewing the in-person lineup. Cardo and Gonzalez assembled the lineup, including Moorer and four other individuals selected from lockups in the area. Moorer was the only person in the photo array and the live lineup, and was not placed in different positions during the lineup.
All of the lineup participants appeared to be Black men. Before viewing the lineup, Gonzalez met separately with each witness and asked them to read and sign an advisory form. The witnesses read and signed the forms, id. Walter viewed the lineup first, identified Moorer, but was only eighty percent certain.
Detective Gonzalez treated his lack of confidence as a negative identification. Rivera went next and identified Moorer as the person she had seen with a gun.
Edwin identified Moorer right away. Edwin also thought that another man present at the attack was in the lineup, but detectives told him to ignore that other man and focus only on the man who entered the apartment. Hernandez and Kindelan identified Moorer as the person they had seen in the gangway.
Miguel viewed the lineup later on the evening of August 28th, and positively identified Moorer as the man whom he seen wrestling with Edward. The six witnesses gave videotaped statements of their accounts of what happened during the home invasion. The witnesses confirmed that they had read and understood the lineup advisory forms and that they had positively identified Moorer in the photo array, physical lineup, or both. On August 29, Martinez was released from the hospital and came to the police station to view a physical lineup.
He had not viewed the photo array. Detectives Cardo and Gonzalez assembled another physical lineup, including Moorer and four "fillers. Moorer was placed in a different position in this lineup than he had been in the previous one. The parties agree that all of the subjects in the lineup appeared to be Black men of approximately Moorer's age, but dispute whether they were the same approximate height and weight.
Martinez read and signed the advisory form before viewing the lineup. Martinez viewed the lineup and identified Moorer as the person who struggled with Edward and subsequently shot and killed him.
That night, detectives investigated Moorer's claim that he had been home during the time of the shooting. In his initial interview with detectives, Moorer told Gonzalez to call a woman who would confirm his whereabouts, and it's reasonable to infer that Moorer meant police officers should speak to his girlfriend.
Moorer's girlfriend, Lakisha Shorter, answered the door, but the detectives didn't interview her. In depositions taken later, Shorter and Tierra Moorer said that Moorer was with them at the party at the time of the murder. But Vaneglen said that she had periodically left the party to be with her sleeping children, and that there were times that night when she didn't see Moorer.
Nobles said that she was upstairs but heard several people playing music downstairs. Nobles was asleep from 10 p.
At some point after their interviews at Moorer's residence, Vaneglen and Nobles were taken to the police station. The parties dispute whether Vaneglen had a choice to go to the police station or not.
Early in the morning on August 30, Vaneglen and Nobles signed written statements at the station. Their statements largely agreed with what they told detectives the day before. Vaneglen and Nobles were not promised anything in exchange for cooperating with the investigation. At a. McDermott, Gonzalez, and Cardo said that they didn't pressure or lie to Augustus in order to coerce her into approving the charges.
The state introduced the advisory forms and photo arrays documenting the witness identifications of Moorer. The grand jury returned a count indictment charging Moorer with first-degree murder, among other crimes.
As part of its pretrial preparations, the state conducted testing on the physical evidence from the crime and studied the phone records of the number associated with Boom.
Investigators compared Moorer's DNA to samples found at the crime scene. A brown hat found at the scene had DNA from two profiles, but neither matched Moorer. Similarly, Moorer was excluded as a match for DNA found on two pieces of black cloth, a portion of a collar, and a t-shirt. The state subpoenaed phone records for the number associated with Boom and hired an expert to analyze cell tower information to determine the phone's location at the time of the shooting.
The expert was unable to determine where the phone had been located during the shooting because it had been turned off. The expert was able to determine that the records were inconsistent with the phone being used near Moorer's home on August 27 or 28, The phone number associated with Boom continued to be used after Moorer was arrested. One of the prosecutors in Moorer's trial later said that the cell phone could have contained exculpatory evidence.
Four years after Moorer's arrest, the city fired detective McDermott because he appeared with another CPD officer in a photograph with an African American man, posing as if McDermott were a hunter and the man was his prey.
Moorer's criminal trial was held in July , almost seven years after his pretrial detention started. Edwin, Martinez, Miguel, Hernandez, Rivera, and Kindelan testified for the prosecution and reaffirmed their identifications of Moorer as one of the shooters. A professor of psychology testified for the defense that the photo array and live lineups including Moorer weren't reliable. The jury found Moorer not guilty on all counts.
Ten months later, Moorer filed this lawsuit. The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution protects "[t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons A seizure, including pretrial detention, is reasonable only if it was based on probable cause to believe the detainee had committed a crime. See Lewis v. City of Chicago, F. The Fourth Amendment governs both detentions that happen before legal process and pretrial detentions that occur after legal process. See Manuel v. City of Joliet, Ill. Unlawful pretrial detention occurs when either "the police hold someone without any reason before the formal onset of a criminal proceeding," or when "legal process itself goes wrong—when, for example, a judge's probable-cause determination is predicated solely on a police officer's false statements.
Probable cause is an absolute bar to a claim for unlawful detention. See Burritt v. Ditlefsen, F. Probable cause exists if the facts and circumstances within the arresting officer's knowledge would allow a prudent person to believe that the suspect had committed or was committing an offense.
Camm v. Faith, F. Vercler, F. Probable cause is assessed objectively, based on the conclusions that the arresting officer reasonably might have drawn from information known to him. Young v. Coleman v. City of Peoria, Illinois, F. Collier, F. The presumption of probable cause after a grand jury has indicted a defendant can be rebutted by "evidence that law enforcement obtained the indictment through improper or fraudulent means.
In other words, Moorer must show that defendants knew that there was no probable cause to seize him or intentionally or recklessly provided false information to the grand jury. Curran, F. Champaign County, Ill. A single identification from a credible eyewitness is sufficient for probable cause.
Hart v. Mannina, F. Allen, F. But to establish probable cause, police officers can't rely on identifications that are the product of "coercion or manipulation. Moorer wants the eyewitness identifications in his case to be assessed using the two-step process used in the Due Process context, see [] at 36, but that is not the test for probable cause under the Fourth Amendment.
See Phillips, F. Instead, to show that officers lacked probable cause to detain him on the basis of a coerced or manipulated identification, Moorer must show that defendants used a forbidden technique "to trick a person into making an unreliable identification.
Or, Moorer must show that a jury could infer that the officers did not believe that the identifications were truthful. See Robertson v. Moorer argues that the identifications in his case were unreliable, overly suggestive, and that—because of gaps in the record about how he became a suspect, missing evidence, unfollowed leads, and evidence that pointed away from him— defendants knew that the eyewitnesses were mistaken or lying when they identified him as being involved in the murder.
See [] at By pointing out inconsistencies between the witnesses' identifications of Moorer and their earlier and later statements to detectives, see [] at , , , Moorer challenges the eyewitnesses' credibility. See Coleman v. It's true that some of the witnesses' identifications don't line up with how they otherwise described the shooting and the suspect. For instance, Moorer had facial hair at the time of his arrest, see [], but in their initial statements none of the witnesses described the first shooter as having a mustache.
See Hart v. Acevedo, F. It's undisputed that the eyewitnesses were at the scene of the crime, saw a man committing crimes, and personally identified Moorer as that man. There's no evidence that the witnesses had a grudge against Moorer, and their accounts were not incredible as a matter of law. See Coleman, F. Alderden, F. Moorer offers a long list of reasons why both the in-person and photo array lineups in his case were overly suggestive or unreliable, and therefore not a suitable basis for probable cause.
First, Moorer argues that the fillers in both the array and lineups didn't match the described weight of the offender. See []; []. The fillers in the photo array all weighed between pounds, see [], and were therefore lighter than the description given by three of the eyewitnesses, but fit the lower end of the description. An examination of the photographs and the demographics of the photo array fillers shows lineups of men reasonably similar in weight to the suspect witnesses described.
See []; []; []. In other words, the discrepancies in size between the fillers in both the array and in-person lineups and the description given by some of the eyewitnesses wasn't so great as to make the array and lineups overly suggestive.
See United States v. Curry, F. Funches, 84 F. Moorer's related argument that the photo array isn't a reliable source of probable cause because he appeared to be the largest person also fails.
See [] at ; United States v. Traeger, F. Moore, F. It's debatable whether Moorer appears to be the largest person in the photo array. See []. His height and weight according to the array demographics was close to that of the fillers, see id. See [] at 1. See Traeger, F. And even at this stage of the case where inferences are drawn in Moorer's favor, the weight or size differential is not evidence from which a jury could conclude that the officers designed the lineup to trick the eyewitnesses into picking Moorer or that the officers knew he was not reasonably suspected of the crime.
See also below at Moorer next argues that the photo array can't be relied on because the top three fillers appeared bald even though no witness described the offender that way.
While the photograph of one of the men in the array is so light as to make identifying facial features impossible, the five other men in the array including Moorer have either short hair or none at all.
Galati, F. Gonzalez, F. That Moorer wore a dark shirt didn't make the in-person lineups an unreliable source for probable cause, either. In general, identifications aren't overly suggestive where a suspect wears an article of clothing associated with the description given by witnesses.
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