Legal Opinion
Evans v. Avery
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 21, 1996No. 95-2125, 95-2126PublishedCited by 132 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
These appeals require us to revisit the legal standard which courts must apply to resolve a claim that a police pursuit has been conducted in a manner antithetical to the protections afforded by the substantive aspect of the Due Process Clause. The question arises in the context of a civil action brought against the City of Boston and two of its police officers after a motor vehicle driven by a suspected drug dealer fleeing from the police struck and injured a youthful pedestrian, Marie Evans. The district court took Evans’ civil rights claims from the jury, and Evans now…
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