United States Sixth Circuit

Evidence that police responded to domestic disturbance call and found the wife with a bleeding finger and her accusation that husband prevented her from calling police provide qualified immunity to officers for arrest of husband, even if they did not ask for husband's side of the story.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/21/2001
• Published 12/21/2001

Judges

• Before:  NELSON and MOORE, Circuit Judges;  KATZ, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Frank G. Becker (argued and briefed), Frank G. Becker & Associates, Southfield, MI, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Ernest R. Bazzana (argued), Mary Massaron Ross (briefed), Plunkett & Cooney, Detroit, MI, for Defendants-Appellants.