Legal Opinion
Richard E. Maxwell v. The City of Indianapolis, Sergeant Harry Gurnell, Officer Dennis Rahn, and Officer George Diehl
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 29, 1993No. 92-2637PublishedCited by 122 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
America’s Most Wanted airs on Sunday nights in Indianapolis. Rudell Combs, as well as several other employees of K-Whit Tool Company, tuned in on July 1, 1990. That night the program featured fugitive Don Moore, a former teacher wanted in Los Angeles for twenty-one counts of “fondling, masturbation, oral copulation and sexual intercourse with several of his fifth grade students.” After viewing the program, Combs and other employees were convinced that coworker Richard Maxwell was Moore. The next morning Combs called America’s Most Wanted and explained why he and other…
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