Legal Opinion
McKenzie v. Lamb
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 24, 1984No. 82-5499PublishedCited by 113 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KENNEDY, Circuit Judge:
Appellants Jerry McKenzie and Thomas Herndon sued officers of the Las Vegas, Nevada, police department under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The substance of their complaint was that the police officers, in their zeal to solve a brutal murder and robbery that had occurred five months previously, made mistaken arrests and then tried to cover-up their errors, all in violation of the appellants’ rights under the fourteenth amendment and under state law.
McKenzie and Herndon are businessmen from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Both were involved in the turquoise jewelry trade. In early 1976,…
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