Legal Opinion
Osborne v. Harris County
District Court, S.D. Texas
Decided March 31, 2015No. Civil Action No. H-13-435PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND OPINION
LEE H. ROSENTHAL, District Judge.
This case involves a midnight distress call and the search and detention that resulted from it. Police dispatchers sent officers to respond to a late-night tip about a domestic disturbance. The dispatchers gave the officers an address, which turned out to be incorrect. The police went to an apartment near the address they were given and talked to the occupant outside the apartment. The officers then forcibly entered, searched the apartment, and detained the occupant. He believes that the officers had no reasonable basis for the entry, the…
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