Legal Opinion
Quintanilla v. City of Downey
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 22, 1996No. 94-56550PublishedCited by 89 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiff Ever Quintanilla appeals from a judgment entered after a jury verdict against him in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit against the city of Downey, its police chief, and three individual officers. The suit alleged that the use of a police dog to search and detain Quintanilla during his arrest violated his rights under the Fourth Amendment. Plaintiff challenges the district court’s denial of his motion for a directed verdict on the issue of deadly force, its denial of his motion for a new trial because of allegedly erroneous evi-dentiary rulings and jury…
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