COOK v. SHELDON

No. 302, Docket 94-7282.

41 F.3d 73 (1994)

Mark COOK, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Roberta SHELDON and Nelson Saldana, New York State Troopers, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided December 2, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederic L. Lieberman, Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City (G. Oliver Koppell, Atty. Gen. of the State of N.Y., Marcie S. Mintz, Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel), for defendants-appellants.

James I. Meyerson, New York City, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before: VAN GRAAFEILAND, MINER and McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judges.


McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge:

Mark Cook brought a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against two New York State Troopers in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Louis L. Stanton, Judge). The claims are based on false arrest, malicious prosecution, and malicious abuse of process. Cook alleges that the Troopers first arrested him and then charged him with a felony, both without probable cause. They did this, Cook maintains...

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