Legal Opinion
Charles Lee Allen v. Carroll R. Lowder Aaron J. Johnson Nathan Rice, and W. Franklin McGuirt David W. Chester Laura Perry Tommy Allen Sam Kelly
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided May 23, 1989No. 87-6727PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SPROUSE, Circuit Judge:
Carroll R. Lowder, Aaron J. Johnson, and Nathan Rice, defendants below, 1 bring this interlocutory appeal from a district court order denying them summary judgment in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action filed by Charles Lee Allen. Allen’s complaint alleged that these state officials’ acts caused him to be illegally kept in custody for fifty-two days after his conviction for possession of stolen goods was reversed by the North Carolina Court of Appeals. Specifically, Lowder, the district attorney for Union County, North Carolina, obtained an order from the Superior Court of that…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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