Legal Opinion
Mondragon v. Thompson
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided March 10, 2008No. 06-2358PublishedCited by 147 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McCONNELL, Circuit Judge.
Christopher Mondragón claims that Officer James Thompson forged an arrest warrant and illegally imprisoned him in New Mexico for three months. He filed suit against Officer Thompson and his supervisor exactly three years (the length of the statute of limitations) after he was released on a state writ of habeas corpus. The district court dismissed this suit as untimely, concluding that any constitutional claims Mr. Mondragón had must have accrued sometime before he was released from jail. We conclude that this is not necessarily so. After the district court’s decision,…
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