· 8/12/1981
Roche v. Egan
Citations
- 433 A.2d 757
- 1981 Me. LEXIS 905
How courts have described this case
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- finding that letter related to officer’s fitness for office based on one of its allegations, even if the rest could be considered purely personal
- “The nature and extent of the responsibility of a police detective is punctuated by the fact that a firearm, no less than a badge, comes with his [or her] office”
- “Maine adheres to the widely recognized common law rale that a jury may not apportion damages for a single injury caused by joint, or concurrent, tortfeasors”
- “police detective . . . vested with substantial responsibility for the safety and welfare of the citizenry in areas impinging most directly and intimately on daily living”
- all law enforcement personnel, including police detective
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Judges: Wernick, Godfrey, Nichols, Glassman, Roberts, Carter
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