Legal Opinion
Knockum v. Waguespack
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided November 2, 2012No. 2012 CA 0277PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the CourtGuidry, J.
| gPlaintiff, Jerome Knockum, an inmate housed at the Elayn Hunt Correctional Center, appeals the dismissal of his personal injury suit as prescribed.
According to the plaintiffs petition, on August 13, 2010, two deputies with the Assumption Parish Sheriffs Office, Donald Calamia and Patrick Sons, “committed assault battery, police brutality, used excessive force not necessary to make an arrest of a non resisting unarmed nonviolent criminal suspect” in the course of responding to a burglar alarm that had been activated at a local business. As a result of the deputies’ actions, the plaintiff…
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