Legal Opinion
Gerard Dean v. City of Worcester
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 23, 1991No. 90-1093PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CYR, Circuit Judge.
Mistakenly identified and arrested as an escaped felon who had threatened to shoot any officer who tried to return him to prison, plaintiff Gerard Dean brought the present civil action against the defendant police officers and the City of Worcester. Dean appeals from a grant of summary judgment in favor of all defendants. We affirm.
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The facts leading up to Dean’s arrest are uncontroverted. On September 3, 1985, Massachusetts State Police Officer Paul Greaney, assigned to the Violent Fugitive Arrest Squad, received information from a reliable informant that Richard Burbo, an…
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