Legal Opinion
Kennedy Ex Rel. B.D.K. v. Town of Billerica
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 13, 2010No. 08-2221, 08-2222PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Chief Judge.
We affirm in part and reverse in part in this contentious civil rights case brought by a family of plaintiffs, the Kennedys, against the Town of Billerica, Massachusetts, and numerous individual police officers. Before us are cross-appeals from jury verdicts and court rulings in the two trials in this bifurcated case.
Specifically, we hold that error in instructing the jury in the first trial on the state law crime of assault and battery on a police officer requires that there be a new trial on the only successful federal civil rights claim against a police officer in that…
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