Legal Opinion
Estate of Clark v. Walker
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 26, 2017No. Nos. 16-3560 & 16-3644PublishedCited by 222 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.
Ryan Clark committed suicide five days after entering the custody of the Green Lake County Jail in Wisconsin. The officers on duty at the time of his death did not know that Clark had a high risk of committing suicide. When he entered the jail, however, he was assessed as having a maximum risk of suicide. The intake staff who were aware of that risk—Officer Bruce Walker and Nurse Tina Kuehn— had not initiated the jail’s suicide prevention protocol. Clark’s estate brought this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that Walker and Kuehn violated Clark’s Eighth Amendment…
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