F.3d, 2021 WL 69299

Dibrell v. City of Knoxville, Tenn

Submitted by Re'Neisha Stevenson on Wed, 10/26/2022 - 00:53

Plaintiff was held without reasonable suspicion for some minutes until a drug dog arrived and allegedly alerted, whereupon plaintiff’s vehicle was searched and police found pills; plaintiff was prosecuted and convicted, then the conviction was reversed by an appellate court that found the initial detention was unlawful; Sixth Circuit holds that plaintiff’s claim for unreasonable seizure of his person, which it analogizes to false arrest and false imprisonment, accrued when he was initially released on bond and therefore this action, which he filed when he was released from his conviction, w