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Denial of Treatment for Two Hours Defeats Qualified Immunity
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2001, page 32
Denial Of Treatment For Two Hours Defeats Qualified Immunity
Filed under:
Cardiovascular,
Excessive Force,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Qualified Immunity.
Location:
Michigan.
Afederal district court in Alabama has held a detainee's allegations that guards failed to take action on his complaints of chest pains for over two hours defeats qualified immunity.
After being arrested by Deputy Sheriff Morris Rogers and taken to Alabama's ...
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