Pappas v. New Haven Police Department

RULING ON DEFENDANTS’ MOTION FOR JUDGMENT, OR, IN THE ALTERNATIVE, FOR A NEW TRIAL

FITZSIMMONS, United States Magistrate Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

This case was tried to a jury from November 19 to November 21, 2002. As articulated in the responses to interrogatories submitted to it, the jury found that plaintiff proved, by a preponderance of the evidence, that defendants Thomas Bene-detto and Karen Hale Roberts acted under color of state law; that neither of those defendants proved, by a preponderance of the evidence, that there was probable cause to arrest plaintiff or that plaintiff consented to…