Allegations:
In April 2004, officers who were investigating the death of McGee's elderly neighbor came to his house and interrogated him. McGee told them that he didn't know anything about the murder, other than what he had heard on the news. Detectives Farley and Lenihan asked McGee to take a lie detector test. He agreed, but asked if they could postpone it, as his wedding was in a few days. Two days later, and three days before McGee's wedding, the detectives arrested McGee at his house and brought him to Area 1, where they interrogated him again. They threated to hold him for 72 hours unless he submitted to a lie detector test, knowing that this would cause him to miss his own wedding. They ignored McGee's repeated requests for a lawyer. Officers Bartik, Farley and Lenihan then conspired to fabricate a story that McGee confessed to the murder twice, once to Officer Bartik and once to all three officers. Based on this fabricated confession, and no other evidence, McGee was charged with the murder, even though DNA from blood found at the scene did not match him and, in fact, matched two other people. McGee was incarcerated for more than three years before he was finally acquitted by a jury. McGee missed his wedding date and the birth of his son.