The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit will weigh questions of qualified immunity and a fact pattern that could indicate excessive force in a case brought against a central Georgia police department represented by Karen Woodward of Cruser, Mitchell, Novitz, Sanchez, Gaston & Zimet.

Though the plaintiffs have yet to file an appellant brief, plaintiffs counsel James Howard of the Howard Law Firm said his client is appealing because “while overall the lower court wrote a very comprehensive and detailed the decision that went through the law fairly accurately, [he] thinks they missed from of the major points [the plaintiff] raised in the case.” Woodward declined to comment on the case while it is still pending.

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