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SIVARD v. PULASKI COUNTY

No. 93-1033.

17 F.3d 185 (1994)

Harold E. SIVARD, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PULASKI COUNTY, Pulaski County Sheriff's Department, Charlotte Ward-Tillett, individually and in her official capacity, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided February 16, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Grace H. Han, Sipe, Pankow, Han & Free, Indianapolis, IN, for plaintiff-appellant.

Frank E. Tolbert, John S. Damm, Miller, Tolbert, Muehlhausen, Muehlhausen & Groff, Logansport, IN, for defendants-appellees.

Before PELL, CUDAHY, and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.

PELL, Circuit Judge.

Harold E. Sivard, Jr., appeals the district court's grant of summary judgment to Pulaski County, the Pulaski County Sheriff's Department, and Sheriff Ward-Tillett on his claim for wrongful detention under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. We affirm.

I.

In December, 1986, a grand jury of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts indicted Sivard for the crime of kidnapping. On February 2, 1987, Deputy Sheriff John Duhnovsky of the Pulaski County...

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