Legal Opinion
John Kelly, Jr. v. Steven Curtis Julie M. Gibson J.R. Moore Chatham County, Ga
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided June 8, 1994No. 92-8791PublishedCited by 199 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARNES, Circuit Judge:
John Kelly spent a year in jail awaiting trial on charges that were eventually dropped. After his release, Kelly sued Chat-ham County, Georgia, and three of its police detectives who had been involved in his arrest. In factual terms, Kelly accused the detectives of concealing exculpatory evidence and of presenting false testimony, thereby causing his lengthy incarceration; he charged the County with failing to establish adequate procedures for conveying exculpatory evidence and with customarily seeking arrest warrants on the basis of affidavits that failed to show…
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