VASQUEZ v. SNOW

No. 78-1704.

616 F.2d 217 (1980)

Bertha VASQUEZ, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. H. W. SNOW and Bill Cooper, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 2, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Craig D. Caldwell, Alto, Tex., for plaintiff-appellant.

Richard E. Henderson, Arthur R. Petersen, Brent P. Burford, Fort Worth, Tex., for defendants-appellees.

Before HILL, KRAVITCH, and THOMAS A. CLARK, Circuit Judges.


JAMES C. HILL, Circuit Judge:

During the summer of 1976, the Fort Worth, Texas police were pursuing a robbery suspect named Sotelo. A warrant for his arrest had issued. The search for Sotelo was complicated, because "[h]e wouldn't stay anywhere over one or two nights, he had too many friends, and he was staying with all of them." Deposition of Wood, at 55. Shortly before August 26, 1976, a reliable informant told one Detective Wood that Sotelo "had been seen" with...

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