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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Johnston grants a number of Illinois State Police officers’ motion for summary judgment, and partially grants Rockford and its police officers' motion for summary judgment, on a slew of civil rights, conspiracy, emotional distress and due process claims brought by a man who spent 23 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. The man claims police fabricated evidence and coerced testimony against him, and similarly withheld evidence that might have helped his case. The court absolves the Illinois State Police from their role in the alleged conspiracy against the wrongly convicted man, but allows his due process and intentional infliction of emotional distress claims stand against all but two of the implicated Rockford police, who are dismissed from the suit. The man’s indemnification claim against Rockford itself also stands.