Legal Opinion
Kent v. Commonwealth
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided July 6, 2001No. 99-P-1182PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCohen, J.
Leominster police officer Thomas Kent was shot *29and seriously wounded on September 15, 1995, by John J. Mac-Neil, a convicted murderer who had been serving a life sentence in the Massachusetts prison system until his parole in 1987. Kent and his wife and three children brought suit under the Massachusetts Tort Claims Act, G. L. c. 258, against the Commonwealth and the Massachusetts Parole Board, alleging that the defendants were grossly negligent in 1987 when they released MacNeil by paroling him to the custody of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) for deportation to Canada, and…
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3Cited by3 opinions
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