Legal Opinion
Bennie Lenard, Cross-Appellant v. Robert Argento & Joseph Sansone v. Village of Melrose Park
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 15, 1983No. 80-2602, 80-2666, 81-2036 and 81-2434PublishedCited by 242 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GRANT, Senior District Judge.
This case arises from the events of January 31, 1977 involving plaintiff-appellee, Bennie Lenard, and several police officers of the Village of Melrose Park, Illinois. The particular events of the case are disputed but we will attempt to provide a fair summary of the facts.
Lenard, a 41 year old black mechanic, discovered when he left work at 7:00 A.M. on January 31 that his car had a flat tire. While waiting for the spare tire to be repaired, he and a co-worker went to a neighborhood bar where Lenard consumed two shots of vodka and two glasses of beer. After…
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