Legal Opinion
Stamps Ex Rel. Estate of Stamps v. Town of Framingham
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 5, 2016No. 15-1141PPublishedCited by 76 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
This civil rights case brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 arises from the tragic shooting death of an innocent, elderly, African-American man, Eurie Stamps, Sr. He was shot by a local police officer, Paul Duncan, during a SWAT team raid executing a search warrant for drugs and related para phernalia belonging to two drug dealers with violent criminal histories thought to reside in Stamps’s home.
The co-administrators of Stamps’s estate sued the Town of Framingham and Duncan. The plaintiffs argue that Duncan violated Stamps’s Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable seizure…
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