United States Fourth Circuit

A police sergeant was entitled to qualified immunity, to a claim that he violated an arrestee's constitutional rights by causing him to be charged and arrested for murder, based on the totality of the circumstances known to the officer at the time of the arrest.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/02/2002
• Decided 07/11/2002
• Published 07/11/2002

Judges

• Before WILKINSON, Chief Judge, KING, Circuit Judge, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED Reginald B. Gillespie, Jr., Faison & Gillespie, Durham, North Carolina, for Defendant-Appellant.  Carl Wesley Hodges, II, Shipman & Associates, L.L.P., Wilmington, North Carolina, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.  ON BRIEFWilliam C. Morgan, Jr., The Brough Law Firm, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, for Defendant-Appellant.  Gary K. Shipman, Shipman & Associates, L.L.P., Wilmington, North Carolina, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.