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SWAIN v. SPINNEY

No. 96-2035.

117 F.3d 1 (1997)

Kelli SWAIN, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Laura SPINNEY, Edward Hayes, and the Town of North Reading, Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 25, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Tyler, with whom Michael Edward Casey, Beverly, MA, was on brief, for appellant.

Douglas I. Louison, Boston, MA, with whom Regina M. Gilgun and Merrick & Louison were on brief, for appellees.

Before STAHL, Circuit Judge, BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Kelli Swain was subjected to a strip search and visual body cavity inspection, while being held in a cell in the North Reading, Massachusetts police station. This search occurred after Swain had been in the cell for twenty minutes, and more than an hour after she was arrested. She was arrested with her boyfriend as a result of his shoplifting; she was suspected of having possessed a small baggie of marijuana. The search was ordered, she says...

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