STRAUB v. MONGE

No. 86-3312.

815 F.2d 1467 (1987)

Michael Dennis STRAUB, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Geoffrey MONGE, as Sheriff of Sarasota County, Florida, Defendant-Appellant. Michael Dennis STRAUB, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. The CHAIRPERSON OF the SARASOTA COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, Jim Hardcastle, the Sheriff of Sarasota County, FL, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

May 5, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nelson, Hesse, Cyril, Smith, Widman & Herb, Richard E. Nelson, F. Steven Herb, Karen E. Atkins, Sarasota, Fla., for defendant-appellant.

Rahdert, Anderson & Richardson, George K. Rahdert, St. Petersburg, Fla., M. David Shapiro, Tampa, Fla., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before HILL and HATCHETT, Circuit Judges, HENDERSON, Senior Circuit Judge.


HATCHETT, Circuit Judge:

This case requires that we determine the scope of Bounds v. Smith, 430 U.S. 817, 97 S.Ct. 1491, 52 L.Ed.2d 72 (1977). Finding that the district court correctly applied Bounds, we affirm.

On March 5, 1982, law enforcement officials in Sarasota County, Florida, arrested Michael Dennis Straub for robbery of the First Federal Bank of Fort Myers, Florida. Following his arrest, criminal charges...

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