Legal Opinion
Plakas v. Drinski
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 21, 1994No. 93-1431PublishedCited by 106 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ZAGEL, District Judge.
Konstantino Plakas was shot once and killed by Jeffrey Drinski, a deputy sheriff. The only witnesses to the shooting were three police officers, Drinski and two others. All of the witnesses testified to an act of self-defense; that Plakas was moving toward Drinski and menacing him with a fireplace poker and that, moments before, Plakas had said to Drinski, “Either you’re going to die here or I’m going to die here.” Plakas’s administrator claimed that the self-defense story was full of holes and that, even if it were not, Drinski and the county which employed him had a…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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