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$147,000 Paid for 3-1/2 Hour Overdetention and Strip Search of Mistaken Arrestee
Loaded on April 15, 2002
by John E Dannenberg
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2002, page 25
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a jury verdict of $100,000 against the Little Rock, Arkansas police when, after a judge ordered the release of a mistakenly arrested woman, they failed to promptly do so.
Filed under:
Searches,
Strip Searches,
Arrestee Searches,
Attorney Fee Awards,
Damages,
Wrongful Imprisonment,
Municipal Liability.
Location:
Arkansas.
Willie Mae Young was arrested by Little Rock police officer James Brown on a …
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