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THOMPSON v. OLSON

No. 85-1982.

798 F.2d 552 (1986)

A. Douglas THOMPSON, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. Richard OLSON, Franklin Noiles, and Stephen Robinson, Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided August 19, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Kayatta, Jr., with whom Pierce, Atwood, Scribner, Allen, Smith & Lancaster, Portland, Me., was on brief, for defendants, appellants.

Mary B. Devine with whom Robert H. Avaunt and Zuckerman & Avaunt, Gray, Me., were on brief, for plaintiff, appellee.

Before BREYER, Circuit Judge, BROWN, Senior Circuit Judge, and TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge:

In this appeal we must determine whether the District Court erred in holding three police officers liable on a state-based (Maine) claim of false imprisonment on the grounds that they breached a duty to conduct a post-arrest investigation which would have tended to negate their initial finding of probable cause. We must further determine whether the District Court correctly ruled that one of those officers was liable to the plaintiff...

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