Legal Opinion
Green v. Nocciero
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 20, 2012No. 11-2037PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Circuit Judge.
Percy Green II, a well-known civil rights activist, was arrested when he refused to leave a public meeting of the St. Louis School Board. Green was charged with disturbing the peace and resisting arrest, the case was eventually tried, and he was acquitted. He then filed a thirteen-count complaint against more than twenty defendants alleging his arrest and prosecution were part of a wide-ranging conspiracy to violate his civil rights. Defendants are the Board of Police Commissioners, the Chief of Police, and the officers involved in Green’s arrest; the City of St. Louis,…
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