BY JIM LETIZIA
Columbus City Council last night
approved a 35 thousand dollar legal settlement with a man whose constitutional
rights were violated by Columbus police.
Earlier this year, a three
judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati reversed a
judge's decision to dismiss a civil rights lawsuit filed in 2008 by Tremaine
Nelms against the city and two police officers. The panel said it appears the
officers violated Nelms' constitutional right against unreasonable search and
seizure. Nelms claimed the officers and his North side apartment complex
manager entered and searched his apartment unlawfully and without reason. City
attorney Rick Pfeffier.