Legal Opinion
Cottrell v. Caldwell
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided June 3, 1996No. 94-6845PublishedCited by 407 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARNES, Circuit Judge:
This case arises out of the death of Leroy Bush Wilson from positional asphyxia as he was being transported in the back of a police car after his arrest. Reverend Jack Cottrell, the administrator of the decedent’s estate, filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that four police officers who arrested or transported Wilson, the police department, and the City of Montgomery had violated his constitutional rights. The district court denied the defendant police officers’ qualified immunity summary judgment motion, and the officers brought this interlocutory appeal from…
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