An Illinois couple who briefly got custody of their granddaughter by having her mother arrested on a pretext—after blackmailing her with nude photos failed—offered no basis for overturning a jury’s conspiracy verdict against them, the Seventh Circuit ruled Nov. 7.
Jade Green’s lawsuit accused her estranged mother and stepfather, Angela and Jack Howser, of effectively enlisting local law enforcement in a conspiracy to kidnap her four-year-old daughter, “E.W.,” after she and her husband moved away from town with the child.
The Howsers first tried to block the move by threatening to print nude photos of Green in the newspaper they ...
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