Parker v. Chief Justice for Administration & Management of Trial Court

At the request of the defendant probation officers, Thomas Gibney and Garrett A. Madison (collectively, probation officers), Attleboro police officers served on the plaintiff, James E. Parker, an arrest warrant in connection with an alleged proba-*175tian violation. Knowing that he was not a probationer, and observing that the person named in the warrant was James M. Parker, the plaintiff attempted unsuccessfully to explain to the police officers that they had the wrong man. The situation disintegrated into a physical confrontation which the probation officers watched but in which they did not…