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THOMPSON v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 04-3177.

472 F.3d 444 (2006)

Lee THOMPSON, Administrator of the Estate of James Thompson and Paulette White-Thompson, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY OF CHICAGO and Officer Bradley Hespe, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 19, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randall W. Schwartz (argued), Parente & Norem, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Mara S. Georges, Emily K. Paster (argued), Office of the Corporation Counsel Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before COFFEY, EVANS, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

COFFEY, Circuit Judge.

On December 5, 2000, James Thompson died following a struggle with police officers who were trying to handcuff him while taking him into custody after he led them on a high-speed automobile chase in an attempt to evade apprehension on the west side of Chicago, Illinois. The Cook County Medical Examiner later ruled Thompson's death a homicide, concluding that he died as a result of asphyxia, resulting at least in part from a "choke hold" applied...

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