COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — An attorney for a man whose conviction
in a Missouri sports editor’s slaying was overturned has filed a civil
rights lawsuit seeking $100 million.
Kathleen Zellner says police
fabricated evidence against Ryan Ferguson in an investigation into the
2001 killing of Kent Heitholt, a Columbia Daily Tribune sports editor
The Columbia Daily Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/1h8FFPP ) that Zellner also alleges
that the police investigation was incomplete.
The
lawsuit, which has been filed in U.S. District Court for the Western
District of Missouri, asks for actual damages of $75 million and
compensatory damages of $25 million.
It names 13 defendants, including the City of Columbia, the Columbia Police Department and Boone County.

Zellner has demanded a jury trial.
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Information from: Columbia Daily Tribune, http://www.columbiatribune.com
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reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — An attorney for a man whose conviction
in a Missouri sports editor’s slaying was overturned has filed a civil
rights lawsuit seeking $100 million.
Kathleen Zellner says police
fabricated evidence against Ryan Ferguson in an investigation into the
2001 killing of Kent Heitholt, a Columbia Daily Tribune sports editor
The Columbia Daily Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/1h8FFPP ) that Zellner also alleges
that the police investigation was incomplete.
The
lawsuit, which has been filed in U.S. District Court for the Western
District of Missouri, asks for actual damages of $75 million and
compensatory damages of $25 million.
It names 13 defendants, including the City of Columbia, the Columbia Police Department and Boone County.

Zellner has demanded a jury trial.
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Information from: Columbia Daily Tribune, http://www.columbiatribune.com
Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights
reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or
redistributed.