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LENARD v. ARGENTO

No. 85-1786.

808 F.2d 1242 (1987)

Bennie LENARD, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Robert ARGENTO and Joseph Sansone, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 6, 1987.

Rehearing Denied February 20, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen E. Sward, Rooks, Pitts & Poust, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellants.

Edward T. Stein, Singer & Stein, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before BAUER, Chief Judge, and CUMMINGS and POSNER, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

In 1977 Bennie Lenard brought this civil rights suit against an Illinois municipality and four of its police officers, seeking damages for events growing out of an arrest. He claimed that the officers had beaten him; and that the officers and the municipality had conspired to deprive him of his right to equal protection of the laws (because he is black), had prosecuted him maliciously, and had conspired to prosecute him maliciously (and thereby...

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