Legal Opinion
Wood v. MCC Superintendant
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 22, 1996No. 96-1078PublishedCited by 83 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
Officers at a Maine prison received a tip that a female inmate’s teenage children would be smuggling drugs into the prison in her infant granddaughter’s booties. The superintendent of the prison, erroneously believing that the tip had been confirmed by two unconnected confidential informants, authorized a strip search of the visitors. In actuality, the tip had originated from a single anonymous and uncorroborated source. The strip search of the plaintiff minors turned up no drugs. Plaintiffs brought suit against the superintendent and the Commissioner of the Maine…
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