United States Sixth Circuit

A city co-chief of police was entitled to qualified immunity from an action in civil rights and tort, arising from plaintiff's arrest, where probable cause to arrest for complicity to commit rape under Kentucky law existed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/13/2003
• Published 01/13/2003

Judges

• Before:  MOORE and COLE, Circuit Judges;  TARNOW, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Julie A. Butcher (argued and briefed), Lexington, KY, for Plaintiffs-Appellees., R. William Tooms Tooms & House, London, KY, Steven J. Moore, Corbin, KY, William B. Pettus, Asst. Atty. Gen., Office of Attorney General Civil & Environmental Law Div., Frankfort, KY, Peggy L. Tolson (briefed), Sarannah L. McMurtry (argued and briefed), Clark, Ward & Cave, Brentwood, TN, for Defendants-Appellants.