BETTS v. RICHARD

No. 514, Docket 83-7580.

726 F.2d 79 (1984)

Mary E. BETTS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Barbara RICHARD, Individually and in her official capacity as a Police Officer in the Police Dept. of Stonington, Conn., Richard Morelli, Individually and in his official capacity as a Deputy Asst. State's Attorney for the State of Connecticut, GA 10 at New London, Officer O'Leary, Individually and in his official capacity as a Corrections Officer in the Dept. of Correction for the State of Conn., assigned to the Correctional Institution at Niantic, Marie Cerino, Individually and in her official capacity as Superintendent of the Conn. Correctional Institution at Niantic, and John R. Manson, Individually and in his official capacity as Commissioner of Correction for the State of Connecticut, Defendants, Richard Morelli, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 23, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Massameno, Asst. State's Atty. Div. of Criminal Justice, Wallingford, Conn., for defendant-appellant.

John R. Williams, Williams & Wise, New Haven, Conn., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WINTER and PRATT, Circuit Judges, and METZNER, District Judge.


METZNER, District Judge:

Plaintiff, Mary E. Betts, instituted a civil rights action seeking money damages from law enforcement officers in connection with a forced appearance as a witness in a criminal prosecution. 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The original defendants were a police officer, a corrections officer, the Superintendent of the Connecticut Correctional Institution at Niantic, the Commissioner of Correction in Connecticut, and the appellant, Richard Morelli, a...

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