Legal Opinion
District of Columbia v. Carter
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 26, 1973No. 71-564PublishedCited by 717 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brennan
On February 12, 1969, respondent filed this civil action in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia alleging that in 1968 Police Officer John R. Carlson of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia arrested him without probable cause and, while he was being held by two other officers, beat him with brass knuckles. The complaint alleged further that Carlson’s precinct captain, the chief of police, and the District of Columbia each had negligently failed to train, instruct, supervise, and control Carlson with regard to the circumstances in which an…
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