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BROWN v. CITY OF HIALEAH

No. 93-4261.

30 F.3d 1433 (1994)

Gavin Shawn BROWN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF HIALEAH, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

September 8, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bret Clark, Miami, FL, for appellant.

Anthony Di Matteo, Gaebe, Murphy, Mullen & Antonelli, West Palm Beach, FL, for appellees.

Before HATCHETT and EDMONDSON, Circuit Judges, and MELTON, Senior District Judge.

HATCHETT, Circuit Judge:

In this excessive force case, we reverse and remand for a new trial.

FACTS

In July, 1984, city of Hialeah, Florida, police officers executed a "reverse sting" operation wherein police officer Guillermo Mugarra, posing as a drug dealer, arranged to sell cocaine to the appellant, Gavin Shawn Brown. Brown and Mario Troncoso, Brown's accomplice, met with officer Mugarra and Alvaro Marin, an undercover informant for the city of...

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