Legal Opinion
Armstrong v. Squadrito
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 24, 1998No. 97-2569PublishedCited by 145 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EVANS, Circuit Judge.
Sixty-two-year-old Walter Armstrong voluntarily turned himself in at the Allen County (Indiana) lockup facility after he learned that a “body attachment warrant” had been issued for his arrest. The warrant was issued because Armstrong failed to appear in court for a hearing regarding child support arrearages. Armstrong thought, with good reason, that he would be in custody for a few hours, but his estimate turned out to be over a thousand hours short of the mark. As it turned out, the sheriff’s office misfiled his records and held him for 57 days despite his repeated…
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