Legal Opinion
Estate of Escobedo v. Bender
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 5, 2010No. 08-2365PublishedCited by 135 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KENDALL, District Judge.
Raquel Hanic, the personal representative of the estate of Rudy Escobedo (“the Estate”), filed suit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Indiana state law against the City of Fort Wayne and against individual members of the Fort Wayne Police Department. Hanic asserted that the individual officers used excessive force against Escobedo when they deployed tear gas into his apartment in an attempt to extricate him from the unit where he had isolated himself threatening to commit suicide. After refusing to come out, the officers used additional tear gas and flash bang grenades…
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