Legal Opinion
Morin v. Caire
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 7, 1996No. 95-30308PublishedCited by 157 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WISDOM, Circuit Judge:
Defendant/appellant, Randy Caire, appeals the district court’s denial of his Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss a civil rights claim filed against him by plaintiffs/appellees, Ralph Morin and Larry Keith Young. For the reasons that follow, we REVERSE.
I. Facts and Background
On November 6, 1991, defendant/appellant, Randy Caire (“defendant” or “Caire”), a police officer for defendant City of Slidell, Louisiana (“City”), arrested the plaintiffs/appel-lees, Ralph Morin and Larry Keith Young (“plaintiffs” or “Morin” and “Young”), for the murder of Morin’s business partner, Leo…
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