Bellamy v. Wells

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

WILSON, District Judge.

In this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action, Plaintiff Engram M. Bellamy alleges that Defendants Alyssa Campbell Wells and Brent Uzdanovics, two City of Waynesboro police officers, violated his Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights because they questioned him post-indictment outside his counsel’s presence, without giving proper warnings or obtaining a waiver of his rights. Bellamy’s statements were used against him at trial, and his resulting conviction was reversed on appeal because the Court of Appeals of Virginia found that the officers violated Bellamy’s…