KIDD v. O'NEIL

No. 83-6556.

774 F.2d 1252 (1985)

Dennis Ray KIDD, Appellant, v. Robert O'NEIL; Mike Lomonaco; Fairfax County Police Dept., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 23, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John T. Jessee, Roanoke, Va. (Woods, Rogers, Muse, Walker & Thornton, Roanoke, Va., on brief), for appellant.

Edward E. Rose, III, Asst. County Atty., Fairfax, Va. (David T. Stitt, County Atty., Fairfax, Va., on brief), for appellees.

Before PHILLIPS, MURNAGHAN and ERVIN, Circuit Judges.


JAMES DICKSON PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents fundamental issues respecting the source and scope of constitutional rights of protection against, and statutory remedies for, the excessive use of force by state police in making arrests. Here the district court, expressing reservations about both the source and scope of any such right and of any consequent remedy, and professing inability to apply what it considered...

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