Legal Opinion
Ryan Leaver v. Gary Shortess
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 21, 2016No. 15-2730PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
Ryan Leaver was arrested in Montana on a Wisconsin warrant for theft by lessee after he failed to return a rental car to Hertz Rent-A-Car in Appleton, Wisconsin. He spent more than two months in a Montana jail before being extradited to Wisconsin. The theft charge was eventually dropped.
Leaver then' filed this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that the investigating officer, Sergeant Gary Shortess of the Outagamie County Sheriff’s Department, intentionally or recklessly omitted certain exculpatory information from his police reports that would have defeated probable…
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