Legal Opinion
Tucker v. Palmer
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided September 4, 2008No. 07-1408PublishedCited by 291 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ACKERMAN, D. J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which SUTTON, J., joined. KEITH, J. (pp. 661-71), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.
OPINION
ACKERMAN, District Judge.
This case involves the conviction of a man for second-degree home invasion based exclusively upon the testimony of the homeowner, who saw the defendant climbing over the back yard fence and running away from the house. Here, we face the sobering issue of whether a man was unconstitutionally deprived of his liberty. We recognize that such an issue should never be addressed lightly, and so we have endeavored to…
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