BATTLE CREEK (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court has turned down an appeal from a state trooper who was involved in a case of mistaken identity.
The court apparently was tied, 3-3, Thursday, meaning an appeals court decision stands.
Billy Rowe spent a weekend in the Calhoun County jail in 2011 until police figured out they had the wrong Billy Rowe in a child pornography investigation.
The appeals court said a civil lawsuit can go forward against Trooper Dennis Milburn.
He had interviewed the true suspect back in 2005 in Mount Morris, near Flint, and wrote a report. But no arrest was made until six years later — when the wrong Rowe was arrested in Calhoun County and transported more than 100 miles to Genesee County.
- Posted November 21, 2017
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