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Summary Judgment Denied in Oklahoma Jail Beating
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2001, page 18
A federal district court in Oklahoma has denied summary judgment against a pretrial detainee's failure to protect and deliberate indifference to medical needs claims. On September 5, 1995, John Winton was booked into the Tulsa County Jail on shooting charges that were later dismissed. Twelve days later he complained about ...
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