United States Sixth Circuit

It was constitutional for a police chief to exact statements from subordinate officers about on-the-job activities in which the officers may have broken the law, where no evidence existed that the officers had been required to waive their 5th Amendment privilege, and the statements had not been used against them in criminal proceedings.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/10/2002
• Published 12/10/2002

Judges

• Before MARTIN, Chief Circuit Judge;  DAVID A. NELSON and GILMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• W. Craig Bashein (briefed), Law Offices of R. William Bashein, Cleveland, OH, Paul W. Flowers (argued and briefed), Law Office of Paul W. Flowers, Cleveland, OH, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Nick Tomino (argued and briefed), Tomino & Latchney, LLC, Medina, OH, for Defendant-Appellee.