TAPIA v. CITY OF GREENWOOD

Nos. 90-3477, 91-1643.

965 F.2d 336 (1992)

Maria D. TAPIA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CITY OF GREENWOOD, Robert P. Harold, Robert L. Dine, and James W. Cutrell, in their official capacities as police officers of the City of Greenwood, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 4, 1992.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied July 21, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglass R. Shortridge, Indianapolis, Ind. (argued), for plaintiff-appellee.

William W. Kurnik (argued), Kurnick, Cipolla, Stephenson, Barasha & O'Dell, Arlington Heights, Ill., Caren L. Pollack, Kenneth Collier-Magar, Stephenson & Kurnik, Indianapolis, Ind., Jo A. Woods, Greenwood, Ind., Richard S. Ewing, Stewart & Irwin, Indianapolis, Ind., for defendants-appellants.

Before WOOD, Jr., MANION and KANNE, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing In Banc Denied July 21, 1992.

KANNE, Circuit Judge.

On a winter evening in 1988, police officers of the small Indiana city of Greenwood entered Maria Tapia's home without a search warrant. Two days before the search, the Greenwood police had received information that Ms. Tapia's nephew, who was wanted on a fugitive warrant for murder, was headed to Greenwood to attend a funeral. On the day of the search, the nephew's car was located...

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