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No Qualified Immunity in Jail Suicide Attempt

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the denial of qualified immunity to a police officer on a claim of deliberate indifference to an Illinois pretrial detainee's suicide risk.


On June 4, 1998, Steven Cavalieri kidnapped his former girlfriend, Stephanie Rouse, and using a gun, threatened to kill Rouse and ...

 

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