Legal Opinion
Smith v. Gomez
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 15, 2008No. 08-1102PublishedCited by 225 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFEY, Circuit Judge.
Tommy Smith, a Wisconsin prisoner, sued a number of law enforcement officers including officers of the Milwaukee Police Department (MPD) and employees of the Wisconsin Division of Community Corrections (DCC) and the Wisconsin Division of Hearings and Appeals (DHA), as well as the governmental entities themselves, arguing under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983, 1985(3), and 1986 that the defendants conspired to deprive him of his constitutional rights to “freedom, liberty, full due process, and equal protection” after he was arrested for being a felon in possession of a firearm and for…
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