Amendment claim is dismissed with prejudice. The Fourteenth Amendment claim is significantly more difficult to resolve. White claims that Rotkvich violated the Due Process Clause by fabricating evidence of his (supposed) guilt. The claim is called a “Whitlock claim” because in Whitlock v. Brueggemann, 682 F.3d 567 (7th Cir.2012), the Seventh Circuit held that “a police officer who manufactures false evidence against a criminal defendant violates due process if that evidence is later used to deprive the defendant of her liberty in some way.” Id. at 580. Significantly for present purposes, the two plaintiffs in Whitlock had been convicted at trial and spent 17 and 21 years in prison before their release. Id. at 570; see also Fields v. Wharrie, 740 F.3d 1107, 1109, 1113 (7th Cir.2014) (<HOLDING>). In Saunders-El v. Rohde, 778 F.3d 556 (7th
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