Legal Opinion
Theresa Sheets Theresa Sheets, as the Administrator for the Estate of Tiffany Jean Montgomery, Deceased v. Sergeant Howard Mullins
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided April 25, 2002No. 00-4162PublishedCited by 108 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
STAFFORD, District Judge.
Appellant, Sergeant Howard Mullins (“Mullins”), appeals the district court’s decision denying his motion for summary judgment on the basis of qualified immunity. We reverse.
I. BACKGROUND
Theresa Sheets (“Sheets”) and Roger Montgomery (“Montgomery”) lived together in Gallia County, Ohio, with their baby daughter, Tiffany, and Sheets’s son, Shawn. On Thursday, February 20, 1997, Montgomery shot and killed Tiffany, set fire to his residence, then shot and killed himself.
According to Sheets, the tragic events of February 20th were the result of an incident that…
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