ARMSTRONG v. SQUADRITO

No. 97-2569.

152 F.3d 564 (1998)

Walter ARMSTRONG, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Joseph SQUADRITO, Allen County sheriff; Henry E. Dill, Allen County jail administrator/commander; Daniel Reid, Richard Loscomb, and Michael S. Tate, jail confinement officers, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 24, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph A. Christoff, Christoff & Christoff, Fort Wayne, IN, Dennis H. Geisleman (argued), Myers & Geisleman, Fort Wayne, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

John O. Feighner, George Sistevaris (argued), Haller & Colvin, Fort Wayne, IN, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before CUMMINGS, BAUER, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.


EVANS, Circuit Judge.

Sixty-two-year-old Walter Armstrong voluntarily turned himself in at the Allen County (Indiana) lockup facility after he learned that a "body attachment warrant" had been issued for his arrest. The warrant was issued because Armstrong failed to appear in court for a hearing regarding child support arrearages. Armstrong thought, with good reason, that he would be in custody for a few hours, but his estimate turned out to be over a thousand hours...

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