Legal Opinion
Town of Newton v. Rumery
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 9, 1987No. 85-1449PublishedCited by 397 opinions
1Judgment of the CourtJustice Powell
III-B, in which The Chief Justice, Justice White, and Justice Scalia join.
The question in this case is whether a court properly may enforce an agreement in which a criminal defendant releases his right to file an action under 42 U. S. C. § 1983 in return for a prosecutor’s dismissal of pending criminal charges.
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In 1983, a grand jury m Rockingham County, New Hampshire, indicted David Champy for aggravated felonious sexual assault. Respondent Bernard Rumery, a friend of Champy’s, read about the charges in a local newspaper. Seeking information about the charges, he telephoned Mary Deary, who…
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