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Tenth Circuit Orders Foreseeability Jury Determination for Detention by New Mexico DOC Employees

Loaded on Jan. 15, 2014 published in Prison Legal News January, 2014, page 52
Filed under: Wrongful Imprisonment, Police, False Arrest. Location: New Mexico.
The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court’s ruling that state corrections employees could be held liable only for their own initial 2- to 3-minute detention of two suspects, and not for further detention that occurred after the suspects were transferred to police custody.

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