Legal Opinion
Burke v. McDonald
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 17, 2009No. 19-1709PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOWARD, Circuit Judge.
In 1998, despite the fact that police had obtained DNA evidence excluding him as the perpetrator, Edmund Burke was arrested for murder and forced to spend a total of forty-two days in jail. Burke subsequently filed a civil rights lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against a panoply of those involved in the investigation of the crime, and after years of litigation, a federal jury found Massachusetts State Police Trooper (Tpr.) Steven McDonald liable for violating Burke’s Fourth Amendment rights and awarded $400,000 in damages. After trial, the district court denied Tpr.…
2Cases cited35 opinions
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