CLARK v. LUTCHER

Civ. No. 77-563.

436 F.Supp. 1266 (1977)

David F. CLARK et al., Plaintiffs, v. Thomas J. LUTCHER, Individually and as a Trooper with the Pennsylvania State Police, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, M. D. Pennsylvania.

August 30, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack C. Younkin, Leavens & Younkin, Shamokin, Pa., for plaintiffs.

J. Andrew Smyser, Deputy Atty. Gen., Vincent X. Yakowitz, Sol. Gen., Robert P. Kane, Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Harrisburg, Pa., for defendants Lutcher, Peterson and McGlynn.

Roger V. Wiest, Charles H. Saylor, Wiest & Wiest, Sunbury, Pa., for defendants Brittain and Kreisher.


OPINION

MUIR, District Judge.

David F. Clark and his parents, Franklin Clark and Pauline Clark, have filed this action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that Defendants, three state policemen and two state prosecutors, violated David Clark's constitutional rights by arresting and incarcerating him without probable cause in connection with the death of one Dorothy M. Bonawitz. On July 25, 1977. Defendants Richard C. Brittain and William Kreisher...

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