Willie Bigford, Jr. v. Joe Max Taylor, Individually and as Sheriff of Galveston County, Texas

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · Decided 1988-01-05

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ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge: Galveston County sheriffs police towed and kept a young man’s battered pickup truck on the suspicion that it might once have been stolen because certain identification stickers were missing or appeared to have been altered. Although the police soon decided that the truck had not been stolen, and the owner repeatedly sought return of his truck, the…

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