Legal Opinion
Jerome Jarrett v. Town of Yarmouth, Gerard Britt, Cheryl Nugent Gomsey, Richard White, Peter McClelland Robert Chapman
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 12, 2003No. 00-2498PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Per curiam
On December 16, 1994, Jerome Jarrett fled the scene of a minor traffic accident and was subsequently apprehended by Shadow, a police dog controlled by Yar-mouth Police Officer Peter McClelland. Shadow bit Jarrett at least twice on the leg in the course of corralling him before officers arrived to take the suspect into custody. Jarrett filed 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claims against Officer McClelland and Robert Chapman, the Yarmouth Chief of Police, 1 alleging that McClelland used excessive force in releasing Shadow, and that Chief Chapman “tolerated a pattern and practice of unjustified, unreasonable…
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