Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit December 26, 2007, 06-2759 (Holmes v. Village of Hoffman Estates)

ROVNER, Circuit Judge.

After a jury acquitted plaintiff Darius Holmes of charges that he committed a battery upon police officers Martin Piatek and Matthew Teipel and resisted Teipel’s efforts to arrest him, Holmes filed suit against the officers and their municipal employers under 42 U.S.C.