Heard

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 3 CHARLES HEARD, Case No. 21-cv-09472-JSC

Plaintiff,

ORDER RE: MOTION TO DISMISS

v. CONVERTED TO MOTION FOR

SUMMARY JUDGMENT

DAMON JACKSON, et al., Re: Dkt. No. 74 Defendants.

9 Richard Barrett was shot twice in the back in San Francisco, California in November 2008. (Dkt. No. 74-4 at 9.) Defendants Robert Lynch and Kevin Jones investigated the homicide for the San Francisco Police Department. Defendants Damon Jackson, Reese Burrows and Sean Griffin—members of the SFPD Gang Task Force—allegedly identified suspects at a meeting in the District Attorney’s office prior to Plaintiff’s arrest. Each of the individual defendants worked for the City and County of San Francisco (the “City”) during the Barrett murder investigation. Eventually, Charles Heard (“Plaintiff”) was arrested and convicted for participating in the murder. In 2020, Plaintiff’s conviction was overturned based on the failure to disclose the identification of alternate…