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071002P.pdf 02/26/2008 Theodore W. White, Jr. v. Detective McKinley
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 07-1002
and No: 07-1166
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City
[PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Bye and Bowman, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - civil rights. There was sufficient evidence to create a
genuine dispute as to whether defendant Richard McKinley acted in bad
faith when he investigated plaintiff on child molestation charges and
failed to preserve and produce exculpatory evidence while engaging in a
relationship with plaintiff's wife, and the district court did not err in
denying McKinley's motion for summary judgment based on a claim of
qualified immunity; a determination that a constitutional violation could
be proven on plaintiff's due process claim also defeats defendant's
qualified immunity defense on plaintiff's conspiracy claim; in this
interlocutory appeal, the court did not have jurisdiction to hear defendant
Tina McKinley's appeal on the issue of whether the district court erred in
denying her motion for summary judgment on plaintiff's claims for false
arrest and malicious prosecution; evidence was sufficient to create a jury
issue as to whether Tina McKinley conspired with Richard McKinley to
deny plaintiff's civil rights, and the district court did not err in denying
her motion for summary judgment.
071002P.pdf 01/30/2008 Theodore W. White, Jr. v. Detective McKinley
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 07-1002
and No: 07-1166
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City
[PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Bye and Bowman, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - civil rights. There was sufficient evidence to create a
genuine dispute as to whether defendant Richard McKinley acted in bad
faith when he investigated plaintiff on child molestation charges while
engaging in a relationship with plaintiff's wife, and the district court did
not err in denying defendant's motion for summary judgment based on a
claim of qualified immunity; a determination that a constitutional
violation could be proven on plaintiff's due process claim also defeats
defendant's qualified immunity defense on a conspiracy claim; court did
not have jurisdiction to hear defendant Tina McKinley's appeal on the
issue of whether the district court erred in denying her motion for
summary judgment on plaintiff's claims for false arrest and malicious
prosecution; evidence was sufficient to create a jury issue as to whether
Tina McKinley conspired with Richard McKinley to deny plaintiff's civil
rights, and the district court did not err in denying her motion for
summary judgment.