Legal Opinion
Brown v. Sweeney
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided November 1, 2007No. Civil Action 07-10065-WGYPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
YOUNG, District Judge.
This action results from a confrontation between the plaintiff Kenneth Brown (“Brown”) and the defendant Ronald Sweeney (“Sweeney”) who, acting in his capacity as police officer for the Town of Hull, sought to take a car parked in Brown’s business lot to the police station upon the ground that it had been reported as a stolen vehicle. Sweeney acted under instructions of the defendant, Hull police sergeant, Joseph Lucas (“Lucas”).
Brown alleges that Sweeney, in his capacity as a police officer, interfered with Brown’s federal and state constitutional…
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