Legal Opinion
Simms Ex Rel. Simms v. Hardesty
District Court, D. Maryland
Decided August 27, 2003No. CIV. AMD 02-3506PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
DAVIS, District Judge.
This is a case of profound irony. Ostensibly to “protect” Christopher Simms, a 28-year-old pre-trial detainee known to have suffered a behavior-altering brain injury years earlier, from injuring himself, a team of three correctional officers entered Simms’s cell at the Prince George’s County, Maryland, Detention Center in September 1998. At the time of the officers’ entry into the cell, Simms was lying on his back on his bed with his hands behind his head. Over the next several moments, after Simms refused an order to get on the water-covered floor of…
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