Atchley v. Greenhill

How later courts describe this case

• stating that a discovery motion cannot be used to postpone summary judgment without some showing of relevance
• no color of law because police department had policy of independently investigating before making arrests for shoplifting
• prosecutor requested that the jury compare defendant's crying during his attorney's plea for his life with the lack of emotion during testimony of the details of the murder; held to be at most harmless error