Legal Opinion
Ali Farred v. J.M. Hicks, Officer, Dekalb County Police Department, A.B. Blaisdell
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided October 31, 1990No. 89-8182PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HATCHETT, Circuit Judge.
In addition to other issues, the parties urge us to venture into Georgia’s unsettled law regarding the preclusive effect of state criminal actions upon subsequent civil actions. Because we are bound by Eleventh Circuit precedent, we follow it, leave the Georgia law on collateral estoppel unsettled, and reverse the district court.
FACTS
On January 29, 1987, J.M. Hicks, a police officer in the DeKalb County Police Department, detained Ali Farred as he walked in the vicinity of Chestnut Hills Circle and Twin Falls Drive in Decatur, Georgia. Officer Hicks asked Farred for…
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