Legal Opinion
Burrell v. Hampshire County
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 7, 2002No. 02-1504PublishedCited by 351 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
Stephen Burrell was assaulted and severely beaten by David Allen, a fellow inmate, on December 2, 1997 while they were both pretrial detainees at the Hampshire County Jail/House of Corrections (“the Hampshire Jail”). Burrell brought a damages action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (2000) against certain jail employees and Hampshire County Sheriff Robert Garvey. He alleged that defendants had been deliberately indifferent to his health and safety, in violation of his Fourteenth Amendment Due Process rights as a pretrial detainee. Burrell also asserted that the Hampshire Jail’s…
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