Legal Opinion
Peter Gakuba v. Charles O'Brien
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 25, 2013No. 12-3345PublishedCited by 135 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Peter Gakuba appeals the district court’s dismissal of his civil-rights lawsuit against law enforcement personnel and others who participated in a criminal investigation of him that led to sexual abuse charges, which remain pending. Because the district court should have stayed some of his claims and allowed others to proceed, we vacate and remand.
In 2006 a runaway teenager accused Ga-kuba of kidnapping and raping him in Rockford, Illinois. Gakuba alleges that investigating police barged into his Rockford hotel room without a warrant and seized his wallet and other…
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