Legal Opinion
Rashied Goodwin v. Edward Conway
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided September 12, 2016No. 15-2720PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
FUENTES, Circuit Judge.
Rashied Goodwin was arrested pursuant to a warrant for allegedly selling heroin to an undercover police officer. A grand jury indicted him but the charges were eventually dropped. Goodwin then brought this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 lawsuit for false imprisonment and malicious prosecution against the three detectives involved in securing his arrest warrant. He claims that the detectives submitted a false warrant application because they knew or should have known that he was in jail at the time of one of the undercover drug deals. He argues that his…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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