THOMPSON v. PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY

No. 84-6103.

753 F.2d 363 (1985)

Lisa Ann THOMPSON, Appellant, v. PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY; Robert S. Noe, Jr., Co. Executive Pr. Wm. Co.; George Owens, Chief of Police Pr. Wm. Co.; R.A. Canterella, Ind. and as a Police Officer of Pr. Wm. Co.; D.M. McDonough, Ind. and as a Police Officer of Pr. Wm. Co.; John Doe, et al., Unknown Police Officers, of Pr. Wm. Co., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided January 31, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carleton Penn, III, Fairfax, Va. (Joseph L. Duvall, Duvall, Blackburn, Hale & Downey, Fairfax, Va., on brief), for appellant.

Stephen A. MacIsaac, Asst. County Atty., Arlington, Va. (James A. Welch, Welch, Murphy & Welch, Wheaton, Md., John H. Foote, County Atty., Arlington, Va., on brief), for appellees.

Before MURNAGHAN and WILKINSON, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge.


MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge:

Not every mix-up in the issuance of an arrest warrant, even though it leads to the arrest of the wrong person with attendant inconvenience and humiliation, automatically constitutes a constitutional violation for which a remedy may be sought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Lisa Ann Thompson, regrettably, was the victim of a misidentification with most unfortunate consequences. An undercover police agent for the Prince William, Virginia, County...

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