BOLTON v. TAYLOR

No. 01-2227.

367 F.3d 5 (2004)

David BOLTON, Jr., Plaintiff, Appellee, v. Stephen TAYLOR, Individually and as Police Officer of the City of New Bedford, Massachusetts, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 4, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph L. Tehan, Jr. with whom Jonathan M. Silverstein and Kopelman and Paige, P.C. were on brief for appellant.

David J. Bolton, Jr. pro se.

Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.


BOUDIN, Chief Judge.

On October 25, 1999, at about 10 a.m., David Bolton — later the plaintiff in this civil rights case — pulled up to a gas station at the corner of Sawyer and Purchase Streets in New Bedford, Massachusetts. A woman named Sandra Swain got out of Bolton's car. These events took place in sight of police officer Stephen Taylor — the prime defendant in this case — who was rolling up to the intersection in his police car and...

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