Nashville DA Glenn Funk now faces a federal civil rights lawsuit over his office’s handling of a high-profile domestic violence case.
In that lawsuit made public Friday, developer David Chase accuses Funk and assistant DA Katy Miller of threatening Chase with prison time to force him to dismiss a lawsuit against Metro Police.
At the same time, Chase also refiled his original civil rights lawsuit against Metro police — the very same lawsuit that the DA insisted last year had to be dropped.
At the center of the two lawsuits are domestic violence charges filed against David Chase back in 2014 by a former girlfriend.
Chase had accused Metro police of overlooking evidence that the charges were fabricated — and he had filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city.
Funk has admitted that, even after the case fell apart, he had insisted that Chase had to drop his lawsuit before the criminal charges could be dismissed.
Now, in this new lawsuit against the DA and Assistant DA Katie Miller, Chase’s lawyer calls that a (continue reading)