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Federal judge says no to suit naming Center Police Dept.

A federal judge has struck down a lawsuit against the Center Police Department that alleged the plaintiff’s fourth amendment rights had been violated, along with property damage and bodily injury during a search of a residence last year.

 

U.S. District Judge Ron Clark of the Eastern District of Texas made the final judgment on the lawsuit last Tuesday. The lawsuit came about when Center Police and Shelby County Sheriff’s Deputies served a warrant and raided a home at 157 County Road 2124 looking for Kenyata Cartwright. The lawsuit was brought by Bertie and Beatrice Cartwright, with Sheriff Willis Blackwell and Investigator DJ Dickerson dismissed from the case by Judge Clark in July of 2013.

 

Center Police Officers named in the suit were Jim Blackwell, Detective Stephen Stroud and Detective Chris Knowlton. The Cartwrights, who were both in the home at the time of the search, were seeking a jury trial for an unknown amount of compensatory and punitive damages from the Center Police Department.

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