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by UncleMeat 246 days ago
Hardly. 1983 claims have been cut to ribbons by the courts. Suing the individual officials for violating your rights is basically impossible because of extremely broad qualified immunity for the cops and even stronger prosecutorial immunity for the DAs. Suing the state office is also extremely difficult since you have to show a ridiculous pattern of violations rather than just that your rights were violated in this case.