Legal Opinion
Woods v. City of Michigan City
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 15, 1991No. 90-1582PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff Jon M. Woods brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the City, the County, and various police officers claiming unlawful detention after his arrest for reckless driving. Before releasing Woods the City police required him to post bond in accordance with a bond schedule issued by a state Superior Court judge. State law, however, explicitly eliminated the requirement that bond be posted for release in reckless driving offenses, conditioning such release instead on the defendant’s signing a promise to appear in court. Woods claimed that his detention and need…
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