Joseph Libretti, Jr. v. Steven Woodson
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
CLAY, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff Joseph V. Libretti appeals the district court decision dismissing his Fourth Amendment claims on the basis of qualified immunity. At issue is whether Defendant Steven Woodson, an agent of the Drug Enforcement Agency (“DEA”), 1 violated Libretti’s clearly established constitutional rights. Libretti’s claims are threefold: that certain items seized from within his home were not specified by Woodson’s search warrant; that Woodson failed to seasonably return those item once they were determined not to be evidence of any crime; and that there was no probable cause to…
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