Legal Opinion
Keith v. Walter Washington
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided April 11, 1979No. 13017PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FERREN, Associate Judge:
Samuel Keith appeals the motions judge’s dismissal of his complaint against the May- or and several Department of Corrections officials for false imprisonment and battery. Having served a brief sentence for “failure to appear,” D.C. Code 1973, § 23-1327(a), Keith alleges that he should have been released from jail on November 26, not December 2, 1975, and that while he was incarcerated a corrections officer pushed and injured him. The judge granted defendants’ motion for judgment on the pleadings on two grounds: (1) the named defendants could not be held liable for the…
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