Legal Opinion
Speight v. Griggs
District Court, N.D. Georgia
Decided September 24, 2013No. Civil Action No. 1:11-CV-03163-ATPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
AMY TOTENBERG, District Judge.
This action arises from injuries Plaintiffs’ teenage son, D.M.C., sustained when Defendant Fulton County Police Officer Corporal Benjamin W. Griggs (“Officer Griggs” or “Defendant Griggs”) shot him during an attempted arrest.1 It is now before the Court on Defendant Griggs’ Motion for Summary Judgment [Doc. 59], Fulton County’s Motion for Summary Judgment2 [Docs. 60, 89], and Plaintiffs Cross-Motion for Partial Summary Judgment [Doc. 73]. The Court’s rulings are set forth below.
I. BACKGROUND3
On the evening of July 28, 2011, D.M.C.4 went joyriding with a…
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