Legal Opinion
Boyd v. Farrin
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 22, 2014No. 13-10805PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM: *
Steven Edward Boyd, a Texas pretrial detainee, filed a pro se civil rights lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that (1) various members of the SWAT team that arrested him violated his constitutional rights by threatening the lives of his children and conducting a warrantless search of his residence and his car; (2) District Attorney James Farrin lied to the grand jury in order to have Boyd charged for crimes that he did not commit; and (3) various members of the SWAT team assaulted him in front of his children and illegally interrogated him while ignoring his requests…
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- Castellano v. FragozoCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2003
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