Legal Opinion
Eric Wheeler v. Dayton Police Department
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided December 4, 2015No. 15-3484PublishedCited by 92 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SUTTON, Circuit Judge.
In June 2012, Eric Wheeler filed a lawsuit alleging that two police officers violated his constitutional rights during a 2009 arrest. A district court dismissed his complaint, and we affirmed. Now Wheeler brings a new lawsuit stemming from the 2009 arrest — namely a challenge to a bench warrant arrest in April 2012 for failing to appear on one of the two charges that arose from the 2009 arrest — raising similar constitutional challenges. Similar allegations arising from the same underlying dispute lead to a similar result: The trial court rejected the second…
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