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Eighth Circuit: No Qualified Immunity for Detainee’s Overdose Death

Loaded on July 9, 2014 by Mark Wilson published in Prison Legal News July, 2014, page 23
Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Drug Overdose, Wrongful Death. Location: Arkansas.

Eighth Circuit: No Qualified Immunity for Detainee’s Overdose Death

by Mark Wilson

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals held on September 20, 2013 that an Arkansas jail guard was not entitled to qualified immunity for his deliberate indifference to a detainee’s serious medical condition which resulted in the detainee’s death. ...

 

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