Legal Opinion
Tafoya v. Salazar
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided February 21, 2008No. 06-1191PublishedCited by 153 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McCONNELL, Circuit Judge.
From 1995 to 2003, John Salazar served as the elected sheriff of Huerfano County, Colorado, responsible for the management and supervision of the Huerfano County Jail. In 1998, two independent incidents of sexual assault occurred in the jail, both perpetrated by male detention officers against female inmates. In Gonzales v. Martinez, 403 F.3d 1179 (10th Cir.2005), we found evidence that these assaults were the product of unconstitutional jail conditions maintained through the deliberate indifference of Sheriff Salazar, and noted many ways in which his administration…
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