United States Eleventh Circuit

Under the Federal Tort Claims Act, a police officer's statement during interrogation that plaintiff could "face the electric chair" if he did not confess does not constitute "physical abuse or the threat of such abuse" in violation of the FBI manual.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/11/2001
• Published 06/11/2001

Judges

• POLLAK, District Judge:, Before BARKETT and HULL, Circuit Judges, and POLLAK, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gregory William Gill,McPhillips, Shinbaum & Gill, James G. Bodin, Montgomery, AL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• R. Randolph Neeley, David L. Allred, Kenneth E. Vines, Leura Garrett Canary, Montgomery, AL, Mark B. Stern, Peter Jeremy Smith, U.S. Dept. of Justice, App. Staff, Civ. Div., Washington, DC, for Defendant-Appellee.