# Brian Patterson v. City of Akron, Ohio

> Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · July 22, 2015 · 619 F. App'x 462

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9814977

## Case

- **Full name:** Brian D. PATTERSON and Derek J. Patterson, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY OF AKRON, OHIO, Et Al, Defendants-Appellees
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- **Decided:** July 22, 2015
- **Citations:** 619 F. App'x 462
- **Precedential status:** Unpublished
- **Opinion:** Concurring in part by Kethledge
- **Judges:** Kethledge, Donald, McCalla
- **Cited by:** 6 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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- holding that a Taser Report was “merely a report of raw data produced by a machine” and thus did not constitute hearsay

## Opinion text

KETHLEDGE,. Circuit Judge,
concurring in part and dissenting in part.
Although I agree with the majority that we should remand Derek Patterson’s claims for a new trial, I think the district court properly granted summary judgment to the defendants on Brian’s claims. Brian surely knew what he was doing when he released his claims. A conscientious state trial judge supervised the procedure by which Brian released them. And by agreeing to release them, Brian avoided the possibility of a felony conviction that would have forever changed his life for the worse. Indeed Brian would have been foolish not to have taken the deal. We should hold him to it.
I respectfully dissent from the remand in Brian’s case.

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