Legal Opinion
Pennington v. Dollar Tree Stores, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided January 30, 2002No. 00-6130PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’MEARA, District Judge.
This case arises out of the arrest and prosecution of Plaintiff/Appellant Linda D. Pennington for allegedly shoplifting $6.00 worth of candy from a Dollar Tree Store in Ashland, Kentucky. On August 15, 1997, after a dispute over the candy with a Dollar Tree employee and a mall security guard employed by Glimcher Properties, Ms. Pennington was arrested by the Ash-land Police. She was charged with shoplifting, but the county prosecutor later dropped the charges in exchange for her stipulation that probable cause existed for her arrest. Ms. Pennington then sued…
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