Legal Opinion
Frankenhauser v. Rizzo
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided March 13, 1973No. Civ. A. No. 71-981PublishedCited by 173 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
EDWARD R. BECKER, District Judge.
This is a civil rights case in which plaintiffs have sued to recover damages for the death of their husband and father, Paul Frankenhauser, who was shot and killed by police in a dyeworks in the Kensington section of Philadelphia on *340the afternoon of September 1, 1970.1 Named as defendants are the police officers who allegedly fired the fatal shots and their superiors in command. The complaint alleges that decedent and his brother, Joseph, who was with him, were unarmed, that neither decedent nor his brother had threatened the police during the…
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3Cited by173 opinions
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