Doe v. City of Springfield

The plaintiff, a former police officer, appeals from a judgment of the Superior Court entered following allowance of a motion for summary judgment of the defendant city of Springfield. The plaintiff maintains that a Superior Court judge erred in ruling, as a matter of law, that the defendant did not violate his rights under either the United States or Massachusetts Constitutions when its police department interrogated him.

This case arises from the police department’s internal investigation described in Springfield v. Civil Service Commission, ante 612 (1988), a case decided today. Because the…