Legal Opinion
Luther Wilkins, Jr. v. James A. May
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 30, 1989No. 85-2194PublishedCited by 194 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Luther Wilkins, Jr., was arrested in South Holland, Illinois in 1979 on suspicion of bank robbery. He was taken to the local police station and placed in a cell. Later that day he was taken to an interrogation room. There, while seated and handcuffed, he was questioned by two FBI agents, May and McDaniel. Wilkins claims that May held a pistol two or three inches from Wilkins’s head, pointed at his temple, and by doing so inflicted severe mental distress on him. He was prosecuted in federal district court for bank robbery, was convicted, and was sentenced to fifteen…
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