DAVIS v. NOVY

No. 04-4096.

433 F.3d 926 (2006)

Michael E. DAVIS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Charles NOVY, individually and in his capacity as a Bolingbrook, Illinois, police officer for the Village of Bolingbrook, and Luis Escobar, individually and in his capacity as a Bolingbrook police officer for the Village of Bolingbrook, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 6, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmund B. Moran, Jr. (argued), Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Daniel C. Shapiro, Moss & Bloomberg, Bolingbrook, IL, Laura L. Scarry (argued), Myers, Miller, Standa & Krauskopf, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before EASTERBROOK, EVANS, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.


TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.

In this case, brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Michael Davis alleges that two police officers from the Village of Bolingbrook, Illinois, violated his rights under the Fourth Amendment by stopping his truck without probable cause and searching it and his home under the authority of a written "consent to search" he was coerced into signing. The officers insist that Davis voluntarily consented to the searches and that an obscured...

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