COURSON v. McMILLIAN

No. 90-3400.

939 F.2d 1479 (1991)

Sharon COURSON, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Quinn A. McMILLIAN, individually and as Sheriff of Walton County, a political subdivision of the State of Florida, Defendant, Jim Roy, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

August 30, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Keith C. Tischler, Powers, Quaschnick & Tischler, Tallahassee, Fla., for defendant-appellant.

Woodburn S. Wesley, Jr., E. Hoyt Walston, Shalimar, Fla., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before COX and BIRCH, Circuit Judges, and GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge.


BIRCH, Circuit Judge:

This interlocutory appeal addresses the qualified immunity status of a deputy sheriff relative to a passenger in a vehicle, which was stopped, and the other occupants were arrested. The passenger contends that her constitutional rights were violated during her detention by the officer pursuant to the stop of the vehicle, and as a result of her roadside abandonment. The district court denied the officer's summary judgment motion regarding his...

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