Legal Opinion
Coscia v. TOWN OF PEMBROKE, MASS.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 14, 2011No. 10-1714PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOUTER, Associate Justice.
In her capacity as Administratrix of the estate of her son, Jason Coscia, the plaintiff, Donna Coscia, has claimed violations of Fourteenth Amendment due process in a suit for damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (2006) against a number of Pembroke, Massachusetts police officers, their superiors, and the town, for failing to prevent Jason Coscia’s death. The nub of her case is the charge that they failed to provide medical services for the decedent who threatened suicide in police custody, as an alleged consequence of which he killed himself some fourteen hours after…
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