Legal Opinion
James T. Voutour v. Harold Vitale, James T. Voutour v. Harold Vitale
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 9, 1985No. 84-1159, 84-1214PublishedCited by 210 opinions
1Per curiam
This appeal is from the judgment entered in a section 1983 civil rights action and pendent state tort claim arising out of the shooting of plaintiff James T. Voutour by a Saugus police officer, defendant Harold Vi-tale. We start with a capsulated account of the circumstances leading to the shooting.
THE FACTS
Voutour and two companions, Dennis MacDonald and Lawrence Dionne, spent the night of Sunday, February 13, 1977, and early Monday morning driving around in an automobile just acquired that afternoon by Voutour. The car was in poor condition; the tires were bad, the brakes did not operate…
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