Civil Rights — damages

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United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit

Civil

Civil Rights — damages

Where all of a plaintiff’s incarceration, allegedly as a result of false arrest and malicious prosecution, are attributable to offenses other than the one for which he was arrested, summary judgment was properly granted to the defendants.

“Ramos failed to make any arguments below that his seizure (his detention for 253 days pending his acquittal) was attributable to the allegedly false statements by the officers. In fact, Ramos concedes that, although his bond was revoked because of the arrest for residential burglary, his detention was for the unlawful use of a weapon charges. All of the time served was credited to the weapons charge to which he pled guilty, and therefore was a part of his incarceration on that conviction. It is not a seizure related to this case at all.”

Affirmed.

10-3425 Ramos v. City of Chicago

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Darrah, J., Rovner, J.