(DOWNLOAD) "Jones v. Reynolds" by United States Court of Appeals " Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Jones v. Reynolds
- Author : United States Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 27, 2006
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 77 KB
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At 1:45 a.m. on October 8, 2001, Aaron Reynolds and Mustapha Atat began a drag race on a public street on the outskirts of Detroit. After roughly one-sixth of a mile, Reynolds lost control of his car and it veered into a crowd of spectators, striking Denise Jones and killing her. What separates this calamity from many others is that police officers from the City of Lincoln Park, a suburb of Detroit, arrived at the scene before the race and had an opportunity to prevent it from beginning. Not only did they fail to stop the race but, so far as this summary-judgment record shows, they also expressly allowed the participants to proceed with the race. For their part in this incident, the officers faced separate state-law criminal charges, a separate state-law civil lawsuit and eventually this § 1983 action, which claimed that the misconduct of the officers and the City of Lincoln Park violated Jones substantive due process rights.