Legal Opinion
Harold E. Sivard, Jr. v. Pulaski County, Pulaski County Sheriff's Department, Charlotte Ward-Tillett, Individually and in Her Official Capacity
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 16, 1994No. 93-1033PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PELL, Circuit Judge.
Harold E. Sivard, Jr., appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment to Pulaski County, the Pulaski County Sheriffs Department, and Sheriff Ward-Tillett on his claim for wrongful detention under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. We affirm.
I
In December, 1986, a grand jury of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts indicted Si-vard for the crime of kidnapping. On February 2, 1987, Deputy Sheriff John Duhnovsky of the Pulaski County Sheriffs Department arrested Sivard without a warrant for the Indiana crime of misdemeanor battery. Si-vard was held in the Pulaski County jail without being…
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