BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — Gage County has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a federal appeals court decision that gives six people wrongly convicted of a 1985 murder another chance at suing officials who prosecuted them.

An attorney for the southeastern Nebraska county is hoping to reverse the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling issued in December.

That ruling revived the federal lawsuit of the wrongly convicted people — known as the Beatrice Six — against Gage County and the officials who built the murder cases against them.

The six served a combined 77 years in prison for the 1985 killing of Helen Wilson in Beatrice before DNA testing cleared them in 2008.