Legal Opinion
Murphy v. Franklin
District Court, M.D. Alabama
Decided March 28, 2007No. Civil Action 2:04cv1218-MHTPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.
Plaintiff Jason Murphy brings this lawsuit against defendants Bill Franklin (in his individual capacity as Sheriff of Elmore County, Alabama) and Gary Bowers (in his individual capacity as administrator of the Elmore County Jail) under the Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, as enforced through 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Murphy alleges that, as a pretrial detainee in Elmore County Jail, he was subjected to treatment that was punitive, degrading, inhumane, and which served no valid penological purpose, and that…
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