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SIMPSON v. WEEKS

No. 77-1331.

570 F.2d 240 (1978)

Lieutenant W. E. "Sonny" SIMPSON, Appellee, v. Gale WEEKS, Chief of Police, Little Rock, Arkansas, John C. Terry, Assistant Chief of Police, Little Rock, Arkansas, and Lieutenant Forrest H. Parkman, Officer, Little Rock Police Department, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided January 18, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John I. Purtle, Little Rock, Ark., for appellants.

William R. Wilson, Jr., Little Rock, Ark., for appellee; Kaneaster Hodges, Jr., Newport, Ark., on the brief.

Before VAN OOSTERHOUT, Senior Judge, and LAY and STEPHENSON, Circuit Judges.

LAY, Circuit Judge.

In the latter part of 1974 Gale Weeks, formerly the Chief of Police of Little Rock, Arkansas, and several other police officers were charged in a federal district court with violating the civil rights of city prisoners. Shortly after the trial began Weeks, through an informant, learned that one or more city police officers had allegedly discussed the case with Richard Mays, the attorney representing the plaintiffs in the civil rights action. Lieutenant...

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