SIMMONS v. CITY OF RACINE, PFC

No. 93-3031.

37 F.3d 325 (1994)

Kenny SIMMONS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CITY OF RACINE, PFC (POLICE AND FIRE COMMISSION), Officer Ivy, Investigator Mooney, Officer Boldus, Lieutenant Holton, and Jailer Sam Hernandez, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 4, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alexander T. Pendleton (argued), Cook & Franke, Milwaukee, WI, for plaintiff-appellee.

Daniel P. Wright, W. Scott Lewis (argued), Racine City Attorney's Office, Racine, WI, for defendants-appellees.

Before CUMMINGS, HILL and COFFEY, Circuit Judges.


CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.

On March 13, 1990, two City of Racine, Wisconsin, Police Department employees, acting on a tip from a confidential informant, approached plaintiff Kenny Simmons in a Racine bar and performed a patdown search for weapons and contraband. None were found, but a third police officer informed them that according to a different confidential informant, the plaintiff was known to hide cocaine between his buttocks. The plaintiff was then arrested on...

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