finding no deliberate indifference when officers failed to remove a blanket as part of a suicide watch, even though the detainee had previously requested to see the jail psychologist, because such conduct “can be characterized at best as mere negligence”
How later courts described this case
- finding no deliberate indifference when officers failed to remove a blanket as part of a suicide watch, even though the detainee had previously requested to see the jail psychologist, because such conduct “can be characterized at best as mere negligence”
- concluding no personal liability for Sheriff who instituted facially constitutional policy
- exercising pendent appellate jurisdiction over merits of case along with qualified immunity question so as to dispense with all federal issues
- the mere fact that the Sheriff did not have a written policy for dealing with suicidal inmates was not inadequate training and did not amount to deliberate indifference to the needs of inmates
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
CLARK, Senior Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I concur in the result only.