Legal Opinion
Hammons v. Scott
District Court, N.D. California
Decided August 10, 1976No. C-75-0846 WHOPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
ORRICK, District Judge.
Plaintiff, Adolph Hammons, Jr., a black resident of San Francisco, California, was arrested by the San Francisco Police Department on March 5, 1974, after a neighbor complained he had fired a gun at her. He was taken to the San Francisco City Jail, booked on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon, fingerprinted, and incarcerated for one day. Plaintiff was released from custody the next day, and all criminal charges arising from this incident were subsequently dropped. However, a record of plaintiff’s arrest was preserved by the San Francisco Police…
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