Legal Opinion
Pazie Connors, Etc. v. Patrolman Joseph McNulty
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 8, 1983No. 82-1384PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN W. PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.
On the night of February 11, 1978, Ralph G. Connors, while fleeing from the commission of a burglary, was shot to death by Providence, Rhode Island patrolmen Joseph McNulty and Robert Hart. Connors’s wife, Pazie, individually, on behalf of decedent’s minor children, and as administratrix of the decedent’s estate, 1 filed suit in the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island seeking damages under the Rhode Island Wrongful Death Act, R.I.Gen. Laws §§ 10-7-1 et seq., and under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. At trial, officers McNulty and Hart raised the…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Wood v. StricklandSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
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3Cited by21 opinions
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