Legal Opinion
Cockrell v. Sparks
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided December 20, 2007No. 07-10984PublishedCited by 479 opinions
1Per curiam
This is an appeal from the district court’s grant of summary judgment to the defendant, Deputy Henry King, on Thomas Cockrell’s excessive force claim against King in his individual capacity.
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On the evening of October 2, 2004, Cockrell was arrested for public drunkenness and placed in the Polk County Jail’s “drunk tank.” 1 While Cockrell was there, an inmate in another cell attempted suicide. Jail policy requires that inmates who attempt suicide be put in the drunk tank because there is nothing in it with which they can hurt themselves. Deputy King, at that time a supervisor at the Polk County…
2Cases cited9 opinions
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