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No Qualified Immunity for Guard Who Transported Prisoner in Dog Cage
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2011
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2011, page 24
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed a district court’s denial of qualified immunity to an Arkansas jail guard who transported a prisoner in a K-9 cage covered with feces, urine and dog hair.In February 2007, jail guard Armand Zefferi transported Thomas Edward Morris III from ...
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