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WILKINS v. MAY

No. 85-2194.

872 F.2d 190 (1989)

Luther WILKINS, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. James A. MAY, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 7, 1989.

As Corrected April 14, 1989.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied May 30, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven J. Durham, Law Student, Northwestern University Legal Clinic, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

Elizabeth M. Landes, Michael J. Marorvich, Asst. U.S. Attys., Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Before POSNER, COFFEY and KANNE, Circuit Judges.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied May 30, 1989.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

Luther Wilkins, Jr., was arrested in South Holland, Illinois in 1979 on suspicion of bank robbery. He was taken to the local police station and placed in a cell. Later that day he was taken to an interrogation room. There, while seated and handcuffed, he was questioned by two FBI agents, May and McDaniel. Wilkins claims that May held a pistol two or three inches from Wilkins's head...

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