United States First Circuit

Qualified immunity does not apply at this stage in a trial where defendants sued law enforcement officers, accusing them of wrongly convicting defendants on a charges of murder, participated in a cover-up, and allowing defendants to languish in prison since 1965.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/14/2004
• Published 06/14/2004

Judges

• SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge, and HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John M. Connolly, with whom Michael B. Meyer and Meyer, Connolly, Sloman & MacDonald LLP were on brief, for appellant Condon., James M. Chernetsky, Assistant Corporation Counsel, City of Boston, with whom Thomas R. Donohue, Assistant Corporation Counsel, was on brief, for appellant Walsh.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael Avery, with whom Juliane Balliro, Ronald J. Snyder, and Perkins, Smith & Cohen, LLP were on consolidated brief, for appellees Limone and Tameleo et al., John Foskett, with whom Richard D. Bickelman, Lawrence R. Holland, and Deutsch Williams Brooks Derensis & Holland, P.C. were on brief, for appellees Werner (Executrix of the Estate of Louis Greco) et al.