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OWENS v. TREDER

No. 664, Docket 88-7864.

873 F.2d 604 (1989)

Curtis H. OWENS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Dewitt TREDER, et ano., Commissioner of Suffolk County Police Department, Patrick Henry, Esquire, Individually and as District Attorney of Suffolk County, New York, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided April 20, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eric Berry, New York City, for plaintiff-appellant.

Paul L. Dashefsky, Smithtown, N.Y., for defendants-appellees.

Before OAKES, Chief Judge, FEINBERG and PRATT, Circuit Judges.

GEORGE C. PRATT, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff Curtis Owens appeals a summary judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Thomas C. Platt, Chief Judge, dismissing this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action in which Owens alleged that racially motivated police brutality had coerced his confession to a murder and robbery. The district court held that the appellate division's affirmance of Owens's conviction in the prior state criminal...

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