Sharon M. Johnson v. Officer J. Miller, Officer Bruce Sutcliff and First National Bank of Chicago

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• concluding police officer’s misidentification arrest of a white woman pursuant to an arrest warrant for a black woman did not violate the Constitution
• finding no Fourth Amendment violation where officers mistakenly arrested a white female based on a facially valid warrant to arrest a woman of a different race
• affirming dismissal, on motion, of a case against arresting officer who executed a warrant issued for a person with the plaintiff’s name, and failed to notice the physical discrepancy between the plaintiff and person described in the warrant
• absent allegation of knowing or intentional constitutional deprivation, plaintiff’s complaint fails to state cause of action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983
• white 6 No. 05-1634 plaintiff failed to state a Fourth Amendment claim for unlawful arrest where she alleged police twice wrongly arrested her pursuant to a warrant bearing her name and address but describing the targeted person as black

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