Legal Opinion
Daniel Martinez v. City of Chicago
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 17, 2018No. 17-1888PublishedCited by 76 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Ripple, Circuit Judge.
In 2012, Chicago Police Department officers arrested Daniel Martinez during a search of his home. They charged him with resisting arrest and obstruction of justice, but a jury acquitted him. He subsequently brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 , alleging that the officers had violated the First and Fourth Amendments of the Constitution of the United States, as made applicable to the states by the Fourteenth Amendment, when they entered and searched his home and seized him. He also alleged that the officers had committed the state tort of malicious prosecution. The…
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