Chicago-july 8, 2013 Case Dismissed.

A Dekalb County Judge granted the Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss in a Malicious Prosecution law suit on Monday. Erickson & Oppenheimer defended a Dekalb couple accused of filing false police reports and manufacturing evidence against a former neighbor. The former neighbor was arrested, charged and tried in felony criminal court for harassing the couple. After a jury found him not guilty of the felony harassment charges, the neighbor filed the suit seeking money damages for the intentional infliction of emotional distress along with malicious prosecution claim.