Legal Opinion
Peter Evans v. City of Zebulon, Georgia
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided May 9, 2005No. 02-16424PublishedCited by 119 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDMONDSON, Chief Judge:
This case is about an arresting officer’s investigatory strip search for the purpose of discovering drugs on persons who had been arrested lawfully but had been arrested for offenses that were not drug crimes.
Plaintiffs-Appellees, Peter Evans and Detree Jordan, sued Defendant-Appellant, Police Officer Denis Stephens, alleging that Officer Stephens violated their rights under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In ruling on defendants’ motion for summary judgment, the district court concluded Officer Stephens’s acts were unconstitutional and not…
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