JUSTICE CENTER FILES LAWSUIT ON BEHALF OF WRONGFULLY CONVICTED MAN MATTHEW LIVERS
Update (3/12/2008)
Police Fabricated Evidence, Coerced Witnesses to Frame Innocent Man in Murdock Murders, Lawsuit Charges
Attorneys representing Matthew Livers, an innocent man who spent seven months in jail after police wrongfully accused him of murdering Wayne and Sharmon Stock, filed a lawsuit yesterday alleging that officers manipulated him into a confession, fabricated and concealed evidence, and coerced witnesses into implicating Livers in the crime.
As a result of the unconstitutional and illegal tactics used in the investigation, Livers, who is mildly retarded, spent months in jail, his reputation was ruined, and many ties with family members were severed. He is seeking monetary compensation for the officers’ misconduct.
“Matthew Livers is a victim of police wrongdoing at its most outrageous,” said Livers’ attorney Locke Bowman, legal director of Northwestern University’s Roderick MacArthur Justice Center in Chicago. “This man’s life was ruined because unethical police officers were more concerned with finding someone to blame than doing the hard work to find the killers who brutally murdered the Stocks. At every turn of this case, officers disregarded valuable clues and conducted a wholly improper and illegal investigation.”
