Legal Opinion
Richard Marx, Individually, and Kristina Marx, a Minor v. Glenn H. Gumbinner, Robert Timmann and Kelly Vaughn, Martin County Sheriff's Dept.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided July 13, 1990No. 89-5594PublishedCited by 173 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDMONDSON, Circuit Judge:
This is the second appeal involving a lawsuit filed by Richard Marx against two Florida state attorneys and three deputies of the Martin County, Florida, Sheriffs Department. Defendant deputies, after discussing the existence of probable cause with a state attorney, arrested Marx for allegedly sexually assaulting his then four-year-old daughter, Kristina. About a month after the arrest, blood tests proved that Marx was not the rapist; and the state attorney’s office dropped the charges. Marx brought a section 1983 1 action on behalf of himself and Kristina, claiming…
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