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Medical Treatment Cannot Be Delayed to Coerce Confession
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1992
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1992, page 3
Medical Treatment Cannot Be Delayed To Coerce Confession
Filed under:
Medical,
Systemic Medical Neglect,
Appendicitis,
Self Incrimination,
Body Cavity Searches,
Qualified Immunity.
Location:
Missouri.
Wesley Taylor is a Missouri state prisoner who suffered a ruptured appendix. Upon arriving at the prison hospital, vomiting blood and in extreme pain, the prison doctor asked him if he had swallowed any balloons of drugs. Taylor denied any such activity …
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