Legal Opinion
Groark v. Timek
District Court, D. New Jersey
Decided November 27, 2013No. Civil No. 12-1984 (RBR/JS)PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*382 OPINION
JOEL SCHNEIDER, United States Magistrate Judge.
Plaintiff Matthew Groark alleges Atlantic City Police Officers Frank Timek (“Timek”) and Sterling Wheaten (“Wheaten”) beat him up without provocation and then filed false criminal charges. Plaintiff learned in discovery that from May 2001 to the present, Timek and Wheaten have collectively been the subject of approximately 78 complaints similar to those asserted here — excessive force, assault, threats, improper search and arrest, and malicious prosecution.1 Atlantic City’s Police Department (“Atlantic City”) did not sustain any of the…
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