Legal Opinion

Guilford v. Frost

District Court, W.D. Michigan

Decided August 18, 2017No. 1:15-cv-1053PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION AND ORDER

Paul L. Maloney, United States District Judge

On a cold winter night in 2015, seventeen-year-old Deven Guilford was driving his girlfriend’s 2010 Ford Focus on M-43 near Mulliken, Michigan. He had just finished playing basketball at his church with his brother. Sergeant Jonathon Frost of the Eaton County Sheriffs Department was driving in the opposite direction in a new 2015 Ford Explorer.

The ships on M-43 should have merely “pass[ed] in the night.”1 Tragically, as fate would have it, one would never pass.

Guilford, believing the driver of the Explorer had his high beams on,…

2Cases cited63 opinions

  1. Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1986
  2. Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, Administratrix of the Estate of CatrettSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  3. Harlow v. FitzgeraldSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
  4. Graham v. ConnorSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
  5. Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1970

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3Cited by7 opinions

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  3. Freeman 402493 v. VanderweilDistrict Court, W.D. Michigan · 2025
  4. Jason W. Engel v. City of Dearborn HeightsDistrict Court, E.D. Michigan · 2026
  5. State v. L. GardnerMontana Supreme Court · 2022

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