Legal Opinion
Elijah Manuel v. City of Joliet
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 10, 2018No. 14-1581PublishedCited by 233 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Easterbrook, Circuit Judge.
Elijah Manuel was arrested and charged with possessing unlawful drugs. A judge decided that he would be held in jail pending trial. Forty-seven days later the prosecutor dismissed all charges after concluding that the pills Manuel had been carrying were legal. The next day he was released. Last year the Supreme Court held that Manuel is entitled to seek damages on the ground that detention without probable cause violates the Fourth Amendment (applied to the states by the Fourteenth). Manuel v. Joliet , --- U.S. ----, 137 S.Ct. 911 , 197 L.Ed.2d 312 (2017). The…
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