Elkhart Co. dismissed from federal lawsuit filed by wrongfully convicted man with mental disabilities
Andrew Royer, foreground, is released from a wrongful murder conviction in April 2020. With him are his mother and stepfather, Jeannie and Michael ...
Andrew Royer, foreground, is released from a wrongful murder conviction in April 2020. With him are his mother and stepfather, Jeannie and Michael Pennington, right, and Chicago attorney Elliot Slosar. (IL file photo) Elkhart County has secured dismissal from a civil rights lawsuit filed by a man with severe mental disabilities whose murder conviction was vacated after nearly 17 years in prison. The county was dismissed last month from the lawsuit brought by Andrew Royer, who in 2005 was convicted of the murder of 94-year-old Helen Sailor, who was found dead in her Elkhart apartment over Thanksgiving weekend in 2002.