Legal Opinion
Albert William Demoran v. F.A. Witt and John Does 1-4.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 24, 1986No. 84-5919PublishedCited by 182 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AMENDED OPINION
CYNTHIA. HOLCOMB HALL, Circuit Judge:
Albert Demoran filed suit in federal district court under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that F.A. Witt, a probation officer for the State of California, deprived him of federal rights under color of state law through Witt’s filing of an erroneous presentencing report. Read liberally, the complaint states that Witt, with malice and in bad faith, filed with a California state court a report containing deliberately false statements and that, as a result, Demoran received an improperly long sentence. The district court granted summary judgment in…
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