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To: lasereye
Ms. Atwater was indeed "deprived of liberty" prior to her day in court when she was arrested. It went to the Supreme Court as a result of a civil lawsuit against the arresting officer and the municipality for which he worked.
393 posted on 05/17/2002 2:54:36 PM PDT by Phillip Augustus
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To: Phillip Augustus
Ms. Atwater was indeed "deprived of liberty" prior to her day in court when she was arrested.

Of course, but if that violated due process, anyone who's arrested and incarcerated prior to conviction had their rights violated, regardless of what the charge is.

I have a feeling the court decided the case on the narrow issue of whether the policeman had the legal right to arrest her. Obviously if an arrest was legal it doesn't grant the cop the right to do anything he feels like. But I don't know what the details of the case were. Perhaps she resisted arrest. Perfectly understandable. I might have done the same. The whole thing sounds outrageous, but unconstitutional? I don't know.

398 posted on 05/17/2002 10:24:14 PM PDT by lasereye
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