HOWE v. BAKER

No. 85-3571.

796 F.2d 1355 (1986)

Raye HOWE, personal representative, of Claude A. Howe for himself and all others similarly situated, Plaintiff-Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. H.G. BAKER, Gordon G. Oldham, Jr. and The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, Defendants, and J. Eldredge Beach and Ralph Davis, Defendants-Appellees/Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

As Amended August 28, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ben R. Patterson, Tallahassee, Fla., for plaintiff-appellant/cross-appellee.

Mitchell D. Franks, Chief Trial Atty., Bruce A. Minnick, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, Fla., and Martin J. Campbell, Asst. State Atty., Tavares, Fla., for defendants-appellees/cross-appellants.

Before GODBOLD, Chief Judge, HILL, Circuit Judge, and LYNNE, Senior District Judge.


GODBOLD, Chief Judge:

Howe was a Highway Patrol Officer stationed in Lake County, Florida. Oldham, the state attorney in Lake County, in a letter to Howe's supervisor, Beach, stated that because of various problems he and other members of his office had had with Howe, he seriously questioned Howe's credibility and would no longer file any cases in which Howe was the arresting officer. One of the problems Oldham referred to was a meeting between Baker, an investigator...

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