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BENJAMIN v. CITY OF MONTGOMERY

No. 85-7135.

785 F.2d 959 (1986)

Lonnie BENJAMIN and Harold Hicken, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The CITY OF MONTGOMERY, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 2, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Carroll, Associate Professor of Law, Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University, Macon, Ga., for plaintiffs-appellants.

N. Gunter Guy, Jr., George B. Azar, Montgomery, Ala., for defendants-appellees.

Before KRAVITCH and HATCHETT, Circuit Judges, and MORGAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents the question of whether two police officers were dismissed for a proper invocation of their fifth amendment rights against self-incrimination or for improperly refusing to answer questions narrowly tailored and specifically directed to the performance of their duties. Lonnie Benjamin and Harold Hicken, both veteran officers of the Montgomery, Alabama Police Department, filed a section 1983 action challenging their dismissal...

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