ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A federal judge is refusing to reconsider his dismissal of a salesman's lawsuit against the Albuquerque Police Department and a former police chief in connection with the conduct of the investigation into two 2007 killings.
The Albuquerque Journal reports that U.S. District Judge William P. Johnson in late December also refused to allow Travis Rowley to file a new version of the suit that Johnson ordered dismissed last July.
Rowley and another door-to-door salesman were jailed for nearly 17 months before being cleared.
DNA evidence eventually linked the crimes to another man, Clifton Bloomfield, who confessed in that case and four other killings.
Johnson ruled that the city had immunity because detectives had probable cause to arrest Rowley and go to the grand jury with evidence they'd gathered.