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McDOWELL v. ROGERS

No. 87-5730.

863 F.2d 1302 (1988)

John DeWitt McDOWELL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. R.R. ROGERS, D.E. Ross, and R.L. Martin, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided December 27, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John DeWitt McDowell, Henning, Tenn., pro se.

Charles V. Holmes, Memphis, Tenn., for defendants-appellees.

Before KEITH, MARTIN and NELSON, Circuit Judges.

DAVID A. NELSON, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff John McDowell sued three Memphis police officers in federal court under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Mr. McDowell's complaint, which he filed pro se, alleged in essence that the defendant officers had deprived him of unspecified constitutional rights by the unnecessary use of "brutal force" in effecting his arrest after an altercation between him and a private security guard.

Mr. McDowell tried his own case before...

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