United States Seventh Circuit

Summary judgment on the ground of qualified immunity is reversed as to the county prosecutor, who instructed an officer to arrest plaintiff on the strength of a complaint that failed to allege a crime.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/03/2004
• Decided 04/14/2004
• Published 04/14/2004

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, ROVNER, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Roscoe D. Cunningham,James M. Neal (argued), Cunningham & Neal, Lawrenceville, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Joseph A. Bleyer (argued), Bleyer & Bleyer, Marion, IL, James C. Cook (argued), Walker & Williams, Belleville, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.