Post by WaTcHeR on Nov 1, 2006 14:59:09 GMT -5
11.01.2006 - TULSA, Okla. - A man's lawsuit claiming a Tulsa police officer's affair with his wife led to bogus charges against him has been tossed out of federal court.
U-S Chief District Judge Claire Eagan dismissed Shannon Coyle's civil rights lawsuit against Officer Travis Ludwig and the city of Tulsa yesterday.
Coyle accused Ludwig and officer Israel Rodriguez of having affairs with Coyle's wife, Crystal Garr, and alleged that Coyle was charged with various offenses after he filed a complaint.
Court records state police found methamphetamine and paraphernalia in Coyle's house and arrested Coyle. But prosecutors dropped charges of drug trafficking and possession of a controlled drug in the presence of a child against Coyle after learning of Ludwig's relationship with Garr, who was a dancer at a Tulsa strip club.
Eagan ruled that Ludwig had probable cause to search Coyle's house and that Ludwig's relationship with Coyle's wife, however inappropriate, is irrelevant.
Coyle's attorney, Thomas Mortensen, says he'll appeal the ruling.
www.kswo.com/Global/story.asp?S=5597196
U-S Chief District Judge Claire Eagan dismissed Shannon Coyle's civil rights lawsuit against Officer Travis Ludwig and the city of Tulsa yesterday.
Coyle accused Ludwig and officer Israel Rodriguez of having affairs with Coyle's wife, Crystal Garr, and alleged that Coyle was charged with various offenses after he filed a complaint.
Court records state police found methamphetamine and paraphernalia in Coyle's house and arrested Coyle. But prosecutors dropped charges of drug trafficking and possession of a controlled drug in the presence of a child against Coyle after learning of Ludwig's relationship with Garr, who was a dancer at a Tulsa strip club.
Eagan ruled that Ludwig had probable cause to search Coyle's house and that Ludwig's relationship with Coyle's wife, however inappropriate, is irrelevant.
Coyle's attorney, Thomas Mortensen, says he'll appeal the ruling.
www.kswo.com/Global/story.asp?S=5597196