Legal Opinion
Larry Nelson v. City of Chicago
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 20, 2016No. 12-3401PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
Larry Nelson was driving home' one night when four Chicago police officers in two squad cars pulled him over, pointed a gun in his face, threatened to kill him, handcuffed him, and searched his car for no apparent reason. The officers have no recollection of the stop but insist that it couldn’t have happened the way Nelson said- it did. Their squad-car computers, however, confirm that they ran Nelson’s name through the law-enforcement database at the time of the stop and turned up nothing that would justify stopping him and searching his ear.
Nelson sued the officers and…
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