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ABSHIRE v. WALLS

Nos. 86-7700, 86-7701.

830 F.2d 1277 (1987)

Thomas D. ABSHIRE, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Stanley I. WALLS, Individually and as a Police Officer; Harold B. Queen, Individually and as a Police Officer; Ronald C. Joynes, Individually and as a Police Officer; Barry C. Barber, Individually and as a Police Officer; Carolyn Cook, Individually and as a Police Officer; John Krach, Individually and as a Police Officer; Cornelius J. Behan, Individually and as Chief of Police; Baltimore County Police Department, Agency of Baltimore County; Baltimore County, a Body Politic of the State of Maryland, Defendants-Appellants. Thomas D. ABSHIRE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Stanley I. WALLS, Individually and as a Police Officer; Harold B. Queen, Individually and as a Police Officer; Ronald C. Joynes, Individually and as a Police Officer; Barry C. Barber, Individually and as a Police Officer; Carolyn Cook, Individually and as a Police Officer; John Krach, Individually and as a Police Officer; Cornelius J. Behan, Individually and as Chief of Police; Baltimore County Police Department, Agency of Baltimore County; Baltimore County, a Body Politic of the State of Maryland, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 2, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. Austin, Asst. Co. Atty., Towson, Md., (Malcolm F. Spicer, Jr., Co. Atty., Baltimore, Md., on brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

Leslie L. Gladstone, Baltimore, Md., for defendants-appellees.

Before WINTER, Chief Judge, and MURNAGHAN and SPROUSE, Circuit Judges.

SPROUSE, Circuit Judge:

Stanley I. Walls, Harold B. Queen, and John Krach — police officers in Baltimore County, Maryland — appeal from the district court's order denying their request for judgment notwithstanding the verdict in Thomas D. Abshire's 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against them. The jury had awarded Abshire $7,000 after it found that Walls, Queen and Krach had participated in an unreasonable strip search of Abshire following his arrest for...

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