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Ninth Circuit Denies Immunity to Police Officers, Jailers for Prisoner’s Death
Loaded on Dec. 5, 2017
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2017, page 26
Filed under:
Eighth Amendment,
Jail Specific,
Wrongful Death,
Excessive Force (Wrongful Death),
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness).
Location:
Arizona.
by Matt Clarke
On December 30, 2016, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the denial of qualified immunity to two Phoenix police officers and two Maricopa County jail guards in a civil rights case alleging they beat a prisoner to death.
When mentally ill U.S. Army veteran Ernest “Marty” ...
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