Church v. Allen County Commissioners

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA FORT WAYNE DIVISION TYWAN D. CHURCH, Plaintiff, v. CAUSE NO. 1:20-CV-177-WCL-SLC ALLEN COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, et al., Defendants. OPINION AND ORDER Tywan D. Church, a prisoner without a lawyer, filed a complaint alleging that an officer of the Fort Wayne Police Department, Officer B. Gerig, planted drugs on him and then lied about it in a probable cause affidavit. “A document filed pro se is to be liberally construed, and a pro se complaint, however inartfully pleaded, must be held to less stringent standards than formal pleadings…