Police cover-up of murder
Walker v. Columbus Division of Police
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Willie M. Walker asks the Supreme Court to review whether an alleged government cover-up of a murder violated the victim’s family’s constitutional right to fair treatment, and when their federal civil-rights claim deadline began.
- Who it affects
- The Court’s refusal ends Walker’s request for Supreme Court review but does not resolve the family’s constitutional claim or its filing deadline.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
Walker’s case concerns a federal civil-rights claim over an alleged cover-up of a murder and concealed evidence.
Question presented
1. Whether a state actor's deliberate cover-up of a murder violates the victim ’ s family ’ s rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, notwithstanding the general rule that there is no constitutional right to the prosecution of another? 2. Whether the accrual of a § 1983 claim alleging a police cover-up of murder begins only upon the discovery of concealed evidence,, where ongoing misconduct spans years and new revelations in 2024 triggered awareness of the full injury.
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