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On May 10, 2013, a unanimous jury in federal court in Boston returned a verdict in favor of a police officer for the Town of Westport Police Department, rejecting the plaintiff’s allegations that the officer had used excessive force during the course of a disturbance in September, 2007.  The case began when police and first responders were dispatched to a single car motor vehicle accident

In January, 2008, members of the Revere Police Department and the Massachusetts State Police executed a search warrant at the residence of the plaintiff in order to locate evidence relating to a marijuana distribution operation that the plaintiff’s son was running out of the home.  At the time that the warrant was executed, the plaintiff was out of the country but the plaintiff’s son was

In 2005, a detective in the Fall River Police Department’s Vice and Intelligence Unit received information from a confidential informant regarding individuals dealing drugs in the City. The detective investigated the situation, including using the confidential informant to make a controlled purchase of drugs, and ultimately the individuals involved were arrested, prosecuted and convicted. In 2009, one of the convicted individuals sent to the Fall

RJA successfully defends member of the Massachusetts State Police against civil rights claims pending before the First Circuit Court of Appeals Recently, RJA was retained by a Lieutenant with the Massachusetts State Police to represent him in an appeal pending before the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston, Massachusetts.  The Lieutenant had been involved in a criminal investigation arising out of a sexual assault