Legal Opinion
Gish Ex Rel. Estate of Gish v. Thomas
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided February 5, 2008No. 07-12368PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRYOR, Circuit Judge:
This appeal about an unusual suicide by a prisoner presents a fact-intensive issue: whether an officer responsible for transporting a pretrial detainee in a police car and aware that the detainee is a strong suicide risk is deliberately indifferent to that risk when the officer leaves a loaded firearm in the front seat of the car while the detainee is in the rear seat in handcuffs and behind a security screen that the officer erroneously believes is locked. Beverly Gish filed a complaint that alleged that Sheriff Jimmy Thomas, Deputy Sheriff William Gilmer, and Pike…
2Cases cited8 opinions
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