Legal Opinion
DeWITT v. District of Columbia
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided May 10, 2012No. 10-CV-510PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMPSON, Associate Judge:
Appellant Steven DeWitt appeals from an order of the Superior Court granting summary judgment in favor of defendants/appellees (the District of Columbia and four of its Metropolitan Police Department detectives) on DeWitt’s complaint asserting common law claims of false imprisonment and malicious prosecution and a claim under the Unjust Imprisonment Act (the “UIA”), D.C.Code §§ 2-121 to -424 (2001). For the reasons discussed below, we affirm.
I. Background
A jury convicted DeWitt of second-degree murder and weapons offenses in connection with the May 13, 1991, shooting…
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