Legal Opinion
Flor Lopez v. William Vanderwater and Howard Wheeler Gamble
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 29, 1980No. 79-1904PublishedCited by 99 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TONE, Circuit Judge.
This appeal concerns the scope of judicial immunity to be afforded under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to a judge who engaged in highly irregular conduct. On the night of October 16, 1975, defendant Vanderwater, then an Illinois judge, arrested plaintiff Flor Lopez, caused him to be charged with petty theft, convicted him on the basis of a guilty plea that is alleged to have been forged, and sentenced him to jail for 240 days. Vander-water accomplished all this with minimal aid from a business associate and several police officers; he proceeded without the assistance of a prosecutor, a…
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