Legal Opinion
Abshire v. Walls
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided October 2, 1987No. Nos. 86-7700, 86-7701PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SPROUSE, Circuit Judge:
Stanley I. Walls, Harold B. Queen, and John Krach — police officers in Baltimore County, Maryland — appeal from the district court’s order denying their request for judgment notwithstanding the verdict in Thomas D. Abshire’s 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against them. The jury had awarded Abshire $7,000 after it found that Walls, Queen and Krach had participated in an unreasonable strip search of Abshire following his arrest for disorderly conduct on August 3, 1982. The police officers also contend on appeal that the district court made a number of other errors during the…
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