Legal Opinion
Gavin Shawn Brown v. City of Hialeah
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided September 8, 1994No. 93-4261PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HATCHETT, Circuit Judge:
In this excessive force case, we reverse and remand for a new trial.
FACTS
In July, 1984, city of Hialeah, Florida, police officers executed a “reverse sting” operation wherein police officer Guillermo Mu-garra, posing as a drug dealer, arranged to sell cocaine to the appellant, Gavin Shawn Brown. Brown and Mario Troneoso, Brown’s accomplice, met with officer Mugar-ra and Alvaro Marin, an undercover informant for the city of Hialeah, at a Holiday Inn, in Hialeah. During the meeting, Brown turned a loaded automatic .45 handgun on Mugarra and Marin in an attempted drug…
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