Legal Opinion
Graham v. Sheriff of Logan County
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided December 20, 2013No. 12-6302PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARTZ, Circuit Judge.
Two prison guards had sexual intercourse with Stacey Graham while she was in solitary confinement at the Logan County Jail in Oklahoma. The guards confessed and were fired immediately. Ms. Graham then sought damages in a civil-rights complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the two guards and the county sheriff. She alleged a violation of the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, as applied to the states under the Fourteenth Amendment. The United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma granted the defendants’ motion for…
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