Legal Opinion
Wiggins v. Rhode Island
District Court, D. Rhode Island
Decided July 22, 2004No. C.A. 02-141SPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER
SMITH, District Judge.
In this civil rights action, the Court is called upon to travel a path of collateral estoppel, qualified immunity and federal constitutional issues as tangled and circuitous as the roadways of the Phenix section of West Warwick, Rhode Island, where the critical events giving rise to this action occurred. Plaintiff Warnsey Wiggins asserts that two Rhode Island state police officers violated his rights under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, 42 U.S.C. § 1981, Article I, § 6 of the Rhode Island Constitution, and assorted theories of…
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