Kendrick v. Schnorbus

Harry Melvin Kendrick was charged with and convicted of robbery. Kendrick was also charged with threatening the life of a witness, but this charge was dismissed at trial. After being confined in the Eddy-ville, Kentucky state prison on the robbery conviction, Kendrick brought a suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against certain police officers, claiming they conspired to arrest him unlawfully in connection with the charge of threatening a witness, and thereby deprived him of his constitutional and civil rights.

The police officers obtained Kendrick’s deposition while he was in prison and used this…