Legal Opinion
Jonathon Castro v. County of Los Angeles
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 1, 2015No. 12-56829PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge GILMAN; Concurrence by Judge CALLAHAN; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge GRABER.
OPINION
GILMAN, Senior Circuit Judge:
In October 2009, Jonathan Castro was arrested for being drunk in public. He was housed in a “sobering cell” at the Los Angeles Sheriffs West Hollywood Station where, a few hours after his arrest, he was savagely attacked by another intoxicated arrestee who had been placed in the cell with him. The officer on duty at the jail failed to respond to Castro’s pounding on the cell door despite evidence that the officer was well within range to hear the…
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