Legal Opinion
Simmons v. Navajo County, Ariz.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 23, 2010No. 08-15522PublishedCited by 1,081 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:
We must decide, among other issues, whether local jail personnel, their supervisors, and their county employer violated the Fourteenth Amendment due process rights of a pretrial detainee who committed suicide while in their custody.
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After allegedly molesting a ten-year-old girl at an elementary school playground, Jasper Simmons (“Jasper”) was arrested by the Pinetop-Lakeside Police Department and charged in Arizona Superior Court with sexual conduct with a minor under fifteen years old. Jasper was only seventeen years old at the time, but because of the nature of…
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