Legal Opinion
James v. District of Columbia
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided June 12, 1985No. Civ. A. No. 83-0243PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
JACKSON, District Judge.
Plaintiff Alonzo James complains that he was assaulted and beaten by an officer of the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department (“MPD”) in the course of his allegedly illegal arrest for larceny in January of 1982, from which he received both transient injuries and permanent loss of hearing in his right ear secondary to the concussion of a gunshot report. He demands compensatory and punitive damages from the District of Columbia, its Chief of Police, the offending police officer, and the officer’s Precinct Captain, on various theories, both…
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