Legal Opinion · Dissent
Willie Santonio Manders v. Thurman Lee
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided March 14, 2002No. 01-13606Published
1Dissent
BARRETT, Circuit Judge,
dissenting, in which TJOFLAT, BIRCH and WILSON, Circuit Judges, join, and in which ANDERSON, Circuit Judge, joins in part:
Willie Santonio Manders sued Clinch County Sheriff Winston Peterson under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for injuries Manders sustained when officers under Sheriff Peterson’s supervision struck him repeatedly in the face and bashed his head against a wall in the Clinch County Jail. According to Manders’s deposition testimony, the beating he sustained upon his arrival at the county jail eventually resulted in his admission to a mental hospital.
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