Legal Opinion
Robert H. Dorsey v. The City of Detroit
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided October 4, 1988No. 86-1416PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DAVID A. NELSON, Circuit Judge.
This is an action against the City of Detroit and certain of its police officers for allegedly violating the civil rights of a fleeing misdemeanant and his mother. When the mother tried, as she claimed, to prevent the arresting officers from injuring her son in the course of his arrest, she was arrested too. Mother and son contend on appeal that the trial court erred in allowing their case to be removed from a state court and erred in admitting into evidence a police report, highly favorable to the defendants, that the plaintiffs say had been withheld during…
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