A deadline is a deadline is a deadline, the Supreme Court said Wednesday in refusing to allow Andre Wallace, who was wrongly imprisoned for more than eight years, to sue the police officers who arrested him. In a 7-2 ruling, the high court said Wallace waited several years too long to file his false arrest lawsuit. In a dissent, Justice Stephen Breyer said the decision probably will result in a flood of false arrest suits because criminal defendants won't risk missing the deadline to file suit.
February 22, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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A deadline is a deadline is a deadline, the Supreme Court said Wednesday in refusing to allow a man wrongly imprisoned for more than eight years to sue the police officers who arrested him.
Andre Wallace, whose murder conviction was overturned in 2002, waited several years too long to file his false arrest lawsuit, the Court said in a 7-2 ruling.
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