Estep v. Combs

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY SOUTHERN DIVISION LONDON JACK ESTEP, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) No. 6:18-CV-23-REW v. ) ) OPINION & ORDER STEVE COMBS, ) ) Defendant. ) ) *** *** *** *** “My wife’s going to kill me,” thought Jack Estep as he was booked at the Harlan County Jail near midnight on the eve of his wedding anniversary. The charges: menacing, resisting arrest, and obstruction. Estep believed he would be “dead meat” when his wife learned of his untimely arrest. An investigation of his son’s unlicensed taxidermy, and Estep’s abrupt intervention, had landed him in the…