Legal Opinion
Mrs. Jimmie Lue Williams v. Douglas E. Kelley and Floyd Carlton McIntyre
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 22, 1980No. 77-2418PublishedCited by 116 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JAMES C. HILL, Circuit Judge:
In the early morning of November 29, 1973, Virgil Williams, Jr. was lawfully arrested and taken to the Atlanta Police station. Apparently intoxicated, Williams was violent and unruly. At the police station, Williams successfully refused to be handcuffed. Once inside, he resisted efforts to take his fingerprints, and an ensuing scuffle was subdued only through the efforts of at least four officers. Williams was forcibly carried to a locked holding room, where he was chained to a steel bench. Williams somehow broke the shackle loose from the bench and pounded the…
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