Legal Opinion
Carter v. Buscher
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 1, 1992No. 91-2029PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
Lisa Ruhl Carter’s husband, Raymond Ruhl, was shot and killed when Illinois State Police officers tried to arrest him for conspiracy and solicitation to have Carter murdered. Carter, as administrator of Ruhl’s estate, brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 seeking $3,000,000 in damages from Illinois State Police officers, employees of the Illinois Department of Corrections and the estate of a slain police officer. Carter alleged that the defendants violated her husband’s Fourth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights because their plan for his arrest “provoked a…
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