Police Must Face Suit by Death Row Inmate They Allegedly Framed

The civil rights claims by an inmate released from death row, alleging that the Philadelphia police officers involved in his case fabricated evidence and deliberately concealed exculpatory evidence, may proceed, the Third Circuit said Tuesday.

James Dennis was convicted for the 1991 murder of a high school student and sentenced to death. He was granted a writ of habeas corpus and got out of prison in 2016, then sued the officers involved in his investigation.

Dennis claimed that the detectives violated his due process rights by concealing information about witnesses who said others committed the murder, falsely said that they ...