ESTATE OF BROWN v. THOMAS

No. 14-1867.

771 F.3d 1001 (2014)

ESTATE OF Adam BROWN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Timothy THOMAS, Matthew Secor, and Brown County, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 13, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth Chesebro , Cambridge, MA, John C. Peterson , Peterson, Berk & Cross, S.C., Appleton, WI, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Samuel C. Hall, Jr. , Crivello Carlson, S.C., Milwaukee, WI, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before POSNER, ROVNER, and TINDER, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

Adam Brown, age 22, was at home with two friends in his ground-floor apartment in Green Bay, Wisconsin at 6:20 p.m. on a December evening, when there was a sudden knocking on his door and a yell of "police, search warrant!" As the police began to force open the front door when no occupant opened it, Brown ran upstairs to his bedroom and grabbed an unloaded shotgun that he kept there. Police followed. As they reached the top of the stairs they...

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