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132407P.pdf   07/16/2014  Regina McDowell  v.  Aaron Pinson
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  13-2407
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Riley, Author, with Bye and Kelly, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Civil Rights. In a suit alleging officers used excessive 
   force in securing plaintiff's decedent's arrest, the district court did 
   not err in admitting one of the defendant officer's deposition testimony 
   when he was unexpectedly absent from trial and his return from Afghanistan 
   was highly impracticable; the court properly weighed the equities and the 
   introduction of the deposition testimony did not prejudice plaintiffs or 
   have a substantial influence on the verdict.