Bushnell v. Rossetti

JAMES DICKSON PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:

Robert E. Bushnell appeals from the district court’s grant of summary judgment for the defendants in his federal civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against sev*299eral agents of the City of Baltimore. The district court granted the defendants’ motion on the basis of a formal release of defendants executed by Bushnell after a determination of Bushnell’s guilt but before his sentencing in a criminal case that arose from the same incident as Bushnell’s § 1983 claim. We affirm.

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On November 18, 1981, Bushnell, an attorney licensed to practice in the State…