Civil rights action against police officers and a city

Sykes v. Anderson, 08-2088, concerned a challenge to a jury verdict in favor of the plaintiffs on their claims against two police officers and award of over $2.5 million in compensatory and punitive damages, in plaintiffs’ 42 U.S.C. section 1983 actions against several police officers, asserting claims of false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, and denial of due process, and against the City of Detroit claiming that the city failed to respond to citizen complaints and that it failed to train and supervise its employees, following their overturned convictions for state crimes of “Larceny by Conversion” and “False Report of a Felony.”

Related Link:

  • Read the Sixth Circuit’s Full Decision in Sykes v. Anderson, 08-2088

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