Legal Opinion
Posr v. Doherty
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 10, 1991No. Nos. 1042, 1155, Dockets 90-7914, 90-7916PublishedCited by 181 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WALKER, Circuit Judge:
Posr Amojo Posr appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, (Robert J. Sweet, Judge) following a jury trial on Posr’s 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law tort claims arising from an altercation between him and several New York City Police officers, among them officers Kevin Doherty and Thomas Holihan, at a protest march for the homeless in New York City on February 14, 1987. At trial Posr claimed that he was unconstitutionally and unlawfully accosted, beaten, arrested, and jailed for forty hours, until he was able to post…
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