McKenzie v. Lamb

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit · Decided 1984-07-24

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KENNEDY, Circuit Judge: Appellants Jerry McKenzie and Thomas Herndon sued officers of the Las Vegas, Nevada, police department under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 . The substance of their complaint was that the police officers, in their zeal to solve a brutal murder and robbery that had occurred five months previously, made mistaken arrests and then tried to cover-up their errors, all in violation o…

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