Skip navigation
Prison Legal News
× You've used up your 3 free articles for this month. Subscribe today.

Misidentification Requires Washington Jail Officials Take Reasonable Steps to Confirm Identity

Loaded on Jan. 15, 2005 published in Prison Legal News January, 2005, page 24
Filed under: Summary Judgment, Sentencing, Wrongful Imprisonment, Municipal Liability. Location: Washington.
The Washington State Supreme Court has held jail personnel have a duty to take steps to promptly release a detainee once they know or should know, based on information provided to them that the person they are holding is not the person named in an arrest warrant.

This matter was ...

 

Full article and associated cases available to subscribers.

As a digital subscriber to Prison Legal News, you can access full text and downloads for this and other premium content.

Subscribe today

Already a subscriber? Login

More from this issue:

  1. Florida's Private Prison Industry Corporation Under Siege, by David Reutter
  2. Is There A Winning Argument Against Excessive Rates For Collect Calls From Prisoners?, by John E Dannenberg
  3. Prison Needle Exchanges Around the World, by Julie Falk
  4. Latest Honduran Prison Massacre: "Homies Were Burning Alive", by Tom Hayden
  5. Texas "Gang Expert" Indicted for Sex Assaults
  6. Ex-Rikers Island Chief Indicted
  7. From the Editor, by Paul Wright
  8. Massachusetts Court Enjoins Sheriff from Charging Jail Prisoners Assorted Fees, by Michael Rigby
  9. Don't Build It Here - The Hype Versus the Reality of Prisons and Local Employment, by Clayton Mosher
  10. Washington Jail Settles Wrongful Death Suit For $1.6 Million, by Michael Rigby
  11. California Initiative To Soften "3-Strikes" Law Defeated; DNA Collection From Arrestees Approved
  12. Washington Prison's Water System and Meat Contaminated With Feces, by Roger Smith
  13. Qualified Immunity Denied to Supervising Driver's License Examiner in Oklahoma Prisoner's Rape, by David Reutter
  14. New York Prisoner's Retaliation Suit Remanded for Trial
  15. HIV Is Occupational Disease for Connecticut Prison Guards
  16. DNA Profiling of Conditionally Released Federal Offenders Upheld, by John E Dannenberg
  17. Los Angeles Voters Reject 5,000 More Cops; Invest In Clear Ocean Instead, by John E Dannenberg
  18. Washington ISRB Departure From Standard Sentencing Range Upheld
  19. Misidentification Requires Washington Jail Officials Take Reasonable Steps to Confirm Identity
  20. Texas Supreme Court clarifies Procedures For Civil Court Prisoner Appearances
  21. Uprisings at CCA Prisons Reveal Weaknesses in Out-of-State Imprisonment Policies
  22. Colorado DOC Report: CCA At Fault for Crowley Uprising
  23. City Settles In Death of Prisoner at CCA-Operated Tulsa Jail
  24. Kansas Supreme Court Upholds Gift Subscription Ban
  25. Non-Contact Visits for Pennsylvania Sex Offenders Upheld
  26. Total Confinement: Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison, by David C Fathi
  27. Gang Validation in Retaliation for Filing Grievances Is Actionable, by Marvin Mentor
  28. Verdict for Other Defendants Cannot Negate Jury Question of Warden's Liability in Transsexual's Assault, by John E Dannenberg
  29. Illinois ETS Injury Claim Allowed To Proceed; Out-of-State Legal Materials Ordered Provided, by John E Dannenberg
  30. Public and Press Have First Amendment Right to Access Court Docket Sheets, by David Reutter
  31. Prisoner Stated Deliberate Indifference Claim, But Summary Judgment Denial Reversed
  32. Verdict for Other Defendants Cannot Negate Jury Question of Warden's Liability in Transsexual's Assault
  33. News in Brief
  34. Arizona Adopts Favorable Termination Rule in Attorney Malpractice Suits

More from these topics: