Legal Opinion
Bolton v. Taylor
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 4, 2004No. 01-2227PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOUDIN, Chief Judge.
On October 25, 1999, at about 10 a.m., David Bolton — later the plaintiff in this civil rights case — pulled up to a gas station at the corner of Sawyer and Purchase Streets in New Bedford, Massachusetts. A woman named Sandra Swain got out of Bolton’s car. These events took place in sight of police officer Stephen Taylor — the prime defendant in this case — who was rolling up to the intersection in his police car and said that he knew Swain to be a prostitute who plied her trade on the corner and that she was also a drug addict.
According to Taylor’s later testimony, Swain…
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