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No Qualified Immunity in Jail Suicide Attempt
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2004
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2004, page 39
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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