Legal Opinion
United States v. Aldo Brown
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 8, 2017No. 16-1603PublishedCited by 92 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
While investigating a tip that illegal drugs were being sold from a south-side convenience store, Chicago Police Officer Aldo Brown sucker-punched a store employee for no apparent reason. As the dazed employee attempted to stagger away, Brown continued to beat and kick him for about two minutes. The beating was caught on the store’s surveillance camera. A federal grand jury indicted Brown for willfully depriving the employee of his Fourth Amendment right to be free from excessive force inflicted by a law-enforcement officer.
At trial Brown sought to introduce expert…
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