Legal Opinion
Cannon v. Macon County
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided September 17, 1993No. 92-6200PublishedCited by 100 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RONEY, Senior Circuit Judge:
In this § 1983 action where an arrest and incarceration resulted from misidentification, we affirm the district court’s dismissal of defendant Macon County, but reverse the judgment notwithstanding the verdict in favor of defendant Robin Collins.
In March 1989 plaintiff Mary Cannon, whose name was then Mary Rene Parrott, was driving with her three children and her boyfriend, Randy Cannon, to her mother’s home in Georgia. When they ran out of funds, they stopped at a rest area and contacted some local relatives to borrow some money. They spent the night in the rest…
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