After a jury awards $45 mil to man wrongfully imprisoned for 21 years, a federal judge finds that Miami Twp., Ohio is on the hook to indemnify detective Matthew Scott Moore who bungled the investigation. Township: The state law requiring us to indemnify violates due process, equal protection, and the Supremacy Clause. Sixth Circuit (unpublished): No need to get into that. You brought it up too late. “What Miami Township does not address, and which formed the core of the district court’s determination, is the fact that Gillispie was forced to spend years of his life unfairly locked in a maximum-security prison, labeled a violent felon, and deprived of the opportunity to live a normal life.” Pay up.
The case is Gillispie v. Miami Twp., No. 23-3999 (6th Cir. May 2, 2025).