Legal Opinion
Owens v. Treder
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided April 20, 1989No. 664, Docket 88-7864PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GEORGE C. PRATT, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiff Curtis Owens appeals a summary judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Thomas C. Platt, Chief Judge, dismissing this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action in which Owens alleged that racially motivated police brutality had coerced his confession to a murder and robbery. The district court held that the appellate division’s af-firmance of Owens’s conviction in the prior state criminal proceedings collaterally es-topped Owens from relitigating in this federal civil rights action the issue of whether Owens had been beaten by…
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