Legal Opinion
Jones v. Byrnes
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided November 9, 2009No. 08-1889PublishedCited by 92 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
2Per curiam
Genora Jones brings this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against two police officers of the Redford Township, Michigan police department1 on behalf of the estate of her husband, Clayton Jones. The officers were engaged in a high-speed car chase of two men suspected of armed robbery on January 23, 2006 around 5:00 a.m. The suspects extinguished their car’s headlights approximately four miles into the chase, presumably to make it more difficult for the police to see their car. The effect was also to make their car difficult for oncoming traffic to see in pre-dawn light. The chase proceeded…
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