Legal Opinion
Frederick Jay King v. Stephen Goldsmith
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 10, 1990No. 89-1142PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff brought this civil rights suit against a state prosecutor and police officers, claiming that they had procured his conviction of receiving stolen property by altering a transcript of a tape recording, withholding exculpatory evidence, and suborning perjury. 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The district judge dismissed the suit as to the prosecutor on grounds of immunity that the plaintiff appears not to be challenging and that are in any event correct; that dismissal is affirmed. The judge later granted summary judgment for the police officers on the ground that, at…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Allen v. McCurrySupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Migra v. Warren City School District Board of EducationSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- George Jones, Cross-Appellant v. City of Chicago, Cross-AppelleesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1988
- Rose v. BartleCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1989
- Rose v. MitchellSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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3Cited by15 opinions
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- Roundtree v. City of New YorkDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1991
- Albright v. OliverCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1992
- Felders v. MillerDistrict Court, N.D. Indiana · 1991
- Lang v. City of Round Lake ParkDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 2000
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