Legal Opinion
Mullins v. Brando
California Court of Appeal
Decided December 10, 1970No. Civ. 35362PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
KAUS, P. J.
Plaintiffs appeal from a judgment entered after defendant’s general demurrer to their second amended complaint was sustained with leave to amend and no amendment was filed.
There are two sets of plaintiffs. Those whom we shall call the “individual plaintiffs” (Robert Coffman, Robert Fredericks and Owen C. Brown) identify themselves as police officers who were involved in a confrontation in the course of which they fired shots at one Bobby Hutton. The fourth plaintiff is Samson P. Mullins who describes himself to the court as the president of the Oakland Police Officers…
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