WANGER v. BONNER

No. 78-2683.

621 F.2d 675 (1980)

Niles B. WANGER and Shirley Wanger, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Ray BONNER, Individually and in his official capacity as Sheriff of DeKalb County, Defendant-Appellant, Robert W. McCullough, etc., et al., Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied September 5, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Christopher Harvey, Wendell K. Willard, Decatur, Ga., for defendant-appellant.

Albert Horn, J. M. Raffauf, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before GOLDBERG, CHARLES CLARK and THOMAS A. CLARK, Circuit Judges.


CHARLES CLARK, Circuit Judge:

Niles and Shirley Wanger brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the former sheriff of DeKalb County, Georgia, Rayburn L. Bonner, and two of his deputies, Robert W. McCullough and Charles T. Bell, alleging that the defendants had violated their fourth amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. The parties tried the case before a jury, which found for the deputies but returned a verdict in favor...

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