Legal Opinion
Marquise Wright v. Calumet City, Illinois
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 17, 2017No. 16-2219PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
On or around December 22, 2014, Marquise Wright was arrested by police officers employed by Calumet City, Illinois (the “City”). The officers did not have an arrest warrant for Wright at the time of the arrest. As characterized by the officers, the incident underlying the arrest involved a murder of one individual and the shooting of multiple other people, and Wright admitted to having a gun at the scene. At a minimum, he was to be charged with unlawful use of a weapon by a felon, a felony offense, but the assistant state’s attorney instructed the City’s officers to wait…
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