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CARR v. CITY OF FLORENCE

Civ. A. No. 88-AR-5262-NW.

729 F.Supp. 783 (1990)

J.T. CARR, et al., Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF FLORENCE, ALABAMA, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Alabama, Northwestern Division.

January 12, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan Walker, Clarence L. McDorman, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., for plaintiffs.

William T. Musgrove, Jr., Walker & Musgrove and A. Stewart O'Bannon, Jr., O'Bannon & O'Bannon, Florence, Ala., for Rick Thompson, Timothy "Tim" Harvey, City of Florence, S. Anderson, M. Crunk, R. Freeman, J. Gillette, K. Johnson, J. Patterson, M. Ray and H. White.

Dennis Riley, Morring, Schrimsher & Riley and Sharon Hindman, Huntsville, Ala., for Lauderdale County Ala., Billy Townsend, Mike Boggan, Charles Perkins, Richard Richey, Kent Simms & Clifford Whitten and Chas. Ford.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

ACKER, District Judge.

The above-entitled case arose out of a nighttime chase and warrantless search by law enforcement personnel from several police jurisdictions in northwest Alabama. It started when two sons of J.T. Carr were observed in the City of Florence in a situation which gave the appearance of being a drug purchase. This led to a high-speed chase, during which the boys abandoned their vehicle in a cotton field, after which tracking...

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