Legal Opinion
Tatro v. Kervin
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 1, 1994No. 20-1365PublishedCited by 96 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TORRUELLA, Chief Judge.
In this appeal, plaintiff-appellant David Ta-tro seeks a new trial for his civil rights action against three Boston police officers on the ground that the verdict for the defendants was based on erroneous jury instructions. While we agree that the trial court erred in instructing the jury that plaintiffs had to prove that defendant police officers “clearly” lacked probable cause to arrest and “clearly” used excessive force in that arrest, we find the error to be prejudicial only as to part of the verdict, and harmless as to the rest. We therefore affirm in part and…
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