ALDRICH, Chief Judge.
Plaintiff-appellant sued the defendant, a Providence policeman, in the District Court for the District of Rhode Island under the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, for false arrest under the Rhode Island detention statute. R.I.Gen.Laws 12-7-1. In this court the defendant asserts that he acted within the statute, that the statute is constitutional — which plaintiff contests — and that, at most, if defendant acted without the...
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