Legal Opinion
James Hirst v. Jean Gertzen
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 10, 1982No. 78-2889PublishedCited by 131 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALARCON, Circuit Judge:
FACTS
In the early morning of March 7, 1975, Clayton Hirst, a member of the Blackfeet Native American Tribe, was found dead in his jail cell in the Glacier County Jail in Cut Bank, Montana, hanged by the neck from his belt. Appellants, the heirs of Clayton Hirst, brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, charging that Glacier County, the City of Cut Bank, and various county and city officials had violated his civil rights.
Appellants put forward two theories of liability for Clayton Hirst’s death. First, appellants alleged that Clayton Hirst had been murdered by electrocution,…
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