COLEMAN v. TURPEN

Nos. 86-1383, 83-1584 and 83-2371.

827 F.2d 667 (1987)

Charles T. COLEMAN, Sr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Michael C. TURPEN, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

August 24, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leslie Brown, Jr., Muskogee, Okl., for plaintiff-appellant.

Weldon Stout, Kennedy, Kennedy, Wright & Stout, Muskogee, Okl., for defendant-appellee Keifer Wrecker Service.

Mort G. Welch, Abowitz & Welch, Oklahoma City, Okl., for defendant-appellee Bill Vinzant.

David W. Lee, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chief, Criminal and Federal Divisions, Oklahoma City, Okl. (Michael C. Turpen, Atty. Gen. of Oklahoma, with him on the brief), for defendant-appellee Michael C. Turpen.

Before McKAY and McWILLIAMS, Circuit Judges, and BROWN, Senior District Judge.


WESLEY E. BROWN, Senior District Judge, sitting by designation.

This is an appeal by Charles T. Coleman, Sr., from an order of the District Court which dismissed his civil rights action which was filed in 1980 under the provisions of 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1983. The subject matter of this litigation concerns certain items of personal property — a 1978 Ford pickup, personal tools, and cash in the sum of $210.00, which were seized at the time of Coleman's arrest on a...

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