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TRETHEWEY v. DeKALB COUNTY, GA.

Civ. No. C86-1208.

662 F.Supp. 246 (1987)

Natasha TRETHEWEY; Joel Thomas Grimmette III, a minor by and through Natasha Trethewey, his next friend and guardian of his property; and the Estate of Gwendolyn T. Grimmette, deceased v. DeKALB COUNTY, GEORGIA; F.D. Hand, Jr., Director, Department of Public Safety, DeKalb County, Georgia; R.T. Burgess, Sr., Chief, Bureau of Police Services, DeKalb County, Georgia; John Does 1 through 5, Employees of DeKalb County, Georgia.

United States District Court, N.D. Georgia, Atlanta Division.

June 25, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony J. McGinley, Malcolm C. McArthur, H. Sanders Carter, Jr., Carter Ansley, Smith & McLendon, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiffs.

Albert Sidney Johnson, Decatur, Ga., Wade H. Watson, III, Karen G. Kirkpatrick, Johnson & Montgomery, Atlanta, Ga., for defendants.

ORDER

ORINDA D. EVANS, District Judge.

This § 1983 action is before the court on Defendants' motion for summary judgment.

Plaintiffs' § 1983 claim arises out of the June 5, 1985 fatal shooting of Gwendolyn Grimmette by her estranged ex-husband, Joel Grimmette. Joel Grimmette had a history of inflicting serious physical abuse on Gwendolyn Grimmette both during the marriage and after their divorce in 1983. In March, 1984, he was tried for...

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