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5 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 32 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Nathson Fields v. Lawrence Wharrie.

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1 Nathson Fields v. Lawrence Wharrie Anchor
ca7 · 2014
green “the fabrication of evidence harmed the defendant before and not just during the trial, because it was used to help indict him.” 12
2 William Avery v. City of Milwaukee
ca7 · 2017
green “convictions premised on deliberately falsified evidence will always violate the defendant's right to due process.” 7
3 Jeffrey Reed v. City of Chicago, a Municipal Corporation, John Griffin, Detective, W. Murphy, Detective
ca7 · 1996
green “the chain of causation is broken by an indictment, absent an allegation of pressure or influence exerted by the police officers, or knowing misstatements made by the officers to the prosecutor.” 6
4 William Hurt v. Matthew Wise
ca7 · 2018
green “the fabrication of evidence harmed the defendant before and not just during the trial, because it was used to help indict him.” 4
5 Bianchi v. McQueen
ilnd · 2013
green “just because a prosecutor was involved in a case in an investigatory role does not mean that he is deprived of immunity for what he did as a prosecutor.” 3

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