Legal Opinion
Morritz J. Weiss v. Brad Cooley
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 22, 2000No. 98-2880PublishedCited by 152 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Morritz Weiss was the principal suspect in a highly charged and well publicized ease involving the rape of a 15-year-old African-American girl near Indianapolis. The present case concerns the treatment he received from three officers — Brad Cooley, Sheriff Terry Weddle, and Jail Commander Guy Fogelman — while he was in custody at the Morgan County, Indiana, jail before his trial. In short, he claims that the jail officials put him with other inmates who the officials knew would attack him, and who in fact did attack him. Weiss filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983,…
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