Legal Opinion
Powers-Bunce v. District of Columbia
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided March 28, 2007No. Civil Action 06-1586 (RMC)PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
COLLYER, District Judge.
On July 15, 2004, Terence Anthony Powers committed suicide in a holding cell at the Metropolitan Police Department’s Third Precinct Headquarters only hours after he was arrested for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and driving with a suspended license. Mr. Powers’s mother, Plaintiff Patricia Powers-Bunce, has sued the District of Columbia and several individual Metropolitan Police Department (“MPD”) and United States Secret Service (“USSS”) officers seeking to hold them legally accountable for her son’s suicide. Defendants have moved to…
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