Lopez v. City of Chicago

Chicago police detectives (defendants) held Lopez (plaintiff), arrested without a warrant, shackled in a windowless interrogation room for four days and nights with minimal food, no toilet, and only a bench or dirty floor to sleep on, eventually eliciting a false confession before charging him five days after arrest — well past the 48-hour probable-cause hearing deadline — and another suspect later confessed to the crime. The district court granted the detectives judgment as a matter of law on Lopez's § 1983 and state-law claims, and Lopez appealed.