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HAMMONS v. SCOTT

No. C-75-0846 WHO.

423 F.Supp. 625 (1976)

Adolph HAMMONS, Jr., Plaintiff, v. Donald F. SCOTT, Chief of Police, City and County of San Francisco, State of California, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. California.

August 10, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas W. Pulliam, Jr., San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff.

James R. Browning, Jr., U. S. Atty., George Christopher Stoll, Asst. U. S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for Federal defendants.

Thomas M. O'Connor, City Atty., John A. Etchevers, Deputy City Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for Donald F. Scott.

Kenneth C. Young, Deputy Atty. Gen., San Francisco, Cal., for State defendant.

OPINION AND ORDER

ORRICK, District Judge.

Plaintiff, Adolph Hammons, Jr., a black resident of San Francisco, California, was arrested by the San Francisco Police Department on March 5, 1974, after a neighbor complained he had fired a gun at her. He was taken to the San Francisco City Jail, booked on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon, fingerprinted, and incarcerated for one day. Plaintiff was released from custody the next day, and all criminal charges...

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