Legal Opinion
Andrew Sledd v. Guy Linsday
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 11, 1996No. 95-2360PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Late in the evening of March 31, 1989, several Chicago police officers used a battering ram to break into the home of Andrew Sledd, in the course of executing a search warrant they had obtained the day before. In the ensuing melee, one of the officers shot Sledd. Two years later (on March 29, 1991), Sledd brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1988 against the officers and the City of Chicago, claiming that the police defendants had used excessive and unjustifiable force against him, falsely arrested and imprisoned him, and maliciously prosecuted him, and that they…
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