Legal Opinion
Cerrone v. Brown
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided April 10, 2001No. Docket No. 00-7177PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN M. WALKER, Jr., Chief Judge:
This appeal requires us to determine whether in 1995 the law was clearly established that a police officer must have probable cause to seize another police officer in the course of a criminal investigation. Plaintiff-appellee Thomas C. Cerrone, a New York State Police Trooper, was detained and questioned by fellow officers during a criminal investigation of a suspected cover-up of a hit-and-run accident. Cerrone sued the investigating officers, including defendants-appellants Lieutenant Scott L. Brown and Captain Thomas Fre-senius of the Inspection Section of…
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