Did that get your attention?
A document hit my email this week, it appears to be public record so I thought I would post it here. It’s quite a doozy. Charles Mauti is suing Police Chief Scuncio for violating his “constitutional rights”. I wonder how much this will cost Hopkinton? Just in time for tax season….
The first deposition of Scuncio appears to have occurred on Dec. 16th. I’d love to get a copy of that. If you read the document, there is a huge list of possible witnesses. You may really be one.
The file is here: http://hopkinton.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/1611318803.pdf
Cops get sued all the time. It’s pretty much part of their job. But most of the time the cases are frivolous and get tossed out or a Town might settle for peanuts. The police have generally been given pretty wide latitude in treatment of prisoners, etc, sometimes making it difficult to determine when rights have actually been violated (of course, when five of them are beating you over the head with batons, it’s a pretty good bet that your rights are being violated). But this case seems to be a whole lot different than your normal “arrest retaliation” suit, to juxtapose a phrase. There is a whole lot of documentation listed in the file above and of course, there is the Westerly precedent for $100K.
January 16, 2009 at 7:14 am
The other day while at Wakefield court watching a case Sune[ Kegan] wrote on yesterday :Officer Patton came in ,he went to the district clerk and handed her papers. She stated I told him before he can’t do it like this. He whipped out his cell phone stating he told him a million times would she like to. She walked away . I asked what did Scuncio want him to do wrong again? He said mind your own business. I said : The Hopkinton Police are my business for ever more. He snapped back : that’s what got you into trouble in the first place ! The truth is out ,retaliation !