Tom U.U. OKURE, Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
Javan OWENS and Daniel G. Lessard, Defendants-Appellants.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued September 25, 1986.
Decided April 6, 1987.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Charles R. Fraser, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of N.Y., New York City (Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of the State of N.Y., Peter H. Schiff, Deputy Sol. Gen., Howard L. Zwickel, Chief, Litigation Bureau, Judith T. Kramer, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of N.Y., New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellants.
Joseph M. Brennan, Albany, N.Y. (Stephen J. Rehfuss, Sullivan, Rehfuss, Cunningham & Brennan, Albany, N.Y., of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.
Burt Neuborne, Jack D. Novick, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York City; Steven Shapiro, New York Civil Liberties Union, New York City; Linda Flores, Kenneth Kimerling, Puerto Rican Legal Defense & Educ. Fund, Inc., New York City, of counsel, for amici curiae of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense & Educ. Fund, The American Civil Liberties Union and The New York Civil Liberties Union.
Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr., Corp. Counsel of the City of New York, John Woods, Donna Hill, Ellen Henak, Nora Freeman, Edward F.X. Hart, Office of the Corp. Counsel of the City of New York, New York City, of counsel, for amicus curiae City of New York.
Before VAN GRAAFEILAND, MESKILL and NEWMAN, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
MESKILL, Circuit Judge:
The plaintiff complained in the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York that defendants Owen and Lessard, State University of New York police officers, battered and beat him during an arrest on the SUNY campus in Albany. Okure v. Owens,625 F.Supp. 1568 (N.D.N.Y.1986). The arrest and alleged beating took place on January 27, 1984, and this civil rights action brought pursuant...
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