Legal Opinion
Mitchell v. City of Boston
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided January 26, 2001No. 1:98-cv-11674PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
SARIS, District Judge.
On January 23, 1990, Marvin Mitchell, the plaintiff in this civil rights action, was convicted after a jury trial of forcible sexual intercourse with an eleven-year-old girl, and sentenced to nine to twenty-five years in state prison. Ultimately, he was exonerated by DNA evidence and released in April 1997.
Mitchell has now brought suit against the City of Boston and two Boston police officers, Trent Holland and Robin DeMar-co. The complaint contains causes of action under federal civil rights law, state civil rights law, and state common law. 1 The…
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