Legal Opinion
Grant v. City of Long Beach
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 16, 2002No. 01-56046PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GOODWIN, Circuit Judge.
Two city police officers appeal a judgment for damages following a jury verdict in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action brought against the city and the individual officers. We affirm.
I. Introduction and Procedural History
Jeffrey Allen Grant was arrested and charged with a series of highly publicized rapes and related felonies (the “Belmont Shores rapes”) that occurred over eighteen months in the City of Long Beach. When forensic evidence found at several crime scenes failed to match Grant’s DNA, the prosecutor dropped all charges and released Grant from jail, where he had…
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