Legal Opinion
Zepp v. Rehrmann
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided March 26, 1996No. 95-1379PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Affirmed by published opinion. Judge NIEMEYER wrote the opinion, in which Judge HAMILTON and Senior Judge PHILLIPS joined. '
OPINION
NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge.
When an inmate at the Harford County (Maryland) Detention Center was found dead in his cell from strangulation, his family accused Harford County deputy sheriffs of sodomizing and murdering him. Faced with the threat of a lawsuit by the inmate’s family against Harford County, its sheriff, and then-employees, the County demanded the resignation of Major E. Dale Zepp, the deputy sheriff in charge of the Detention Center, and threatened not to…
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