Legal Opinion
Theodore Dukes v. Miami-Dade County
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided May 10, 2007No. 06-11629UnpublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Per curiam
Defendants Eric Goldberg, Kimberly Llambes, Enrique Guerra, and Regina Dean (“Defendants”), Miami-Dade County police officers, appeal the district court’s denial of qualified immunity in the Plaintiffs’ civil rights action, 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claims. We affirm in part and reverse in part.
I. BACKGROUND
A. Traffic Stop and Subsequent Arrest and Conviction
The allegations in this lawsuit are all based on a police stop and subsequent chase and arrest. 1 On October 11, 2001, Theodore Dukes, Lynn Smith, and Brian Scruggs (“Plaintiffs”) were in a car driven by Dukes when they were stopped and boxed in…
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