Legal Opinion
Denault v. Ahern
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 16, 2017No. 15-2423PPublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KAYATTA, Circuit Judge.
Chelmsford, Massachusetts police officers seized Timothy Denault’s car to search it for evidence, to no avail. Denault nevertheless ended up losing the car, and his ex-girlfriend’s possessions in the car, because accumulated towing and storage fees owed to the city’s towing vendor exceeded the value of the seized property. Denault and his ex-girlfriend, Jennifer Testa, sued, blaming the loss on the police officers’ failure to return the car promptly upon completing the search. A series of rulings before and after trial eliminated all federal and state civil rights…
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