Legal Opinion
Burke v. Town of Walpole
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 26, 2005No. 04-1226PublishedCited by 146 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
This civil rights ease requires us to decide whether police officers of the Town of Walpole and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of State Police (“Massachusetts State Police” or “MSP”) were entitled to summary judgment on Plaintiff-Appellant Edmund F. Burke’s claim that they violated his Fourth Amendment rights when they arrested him for a brutal murder he did not commit. We must also decide whether forensic dentists/odontologists who assisted in the murder investigation were entitled to summary judgment on Burke’s claims that they fabricated or exaggerated…
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