Legal Opinion
Pena v. Leombruni
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 30, 1999No. 99-1435PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
This is a civil rights suit, charging the use of excessive force by police in violation of the Fourth Amendment, Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S. 386, 395, 109 S.Ct. 1865, 104 L.Ed.2d 443 (1989), held applicable to the states through the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The jury brought in a verdict for the defendants; and construed favorably to the verdict, the facts are as follows. Leombruni, a deputy sheriff of Winnebago County, Illinois, responded to a dispatch that a man, later identified as the plaintiffs’ decedent, Pena, was “acting crazy,” was shoplifting,…
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