Legal Opinion
Surprenant v. Rivas
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 9, 2005No. 04-2285PublishedCited by 187 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
In this prisoner civil rights action, two correctional officers and the superintendent of a county jail appeal from a jury verdict in favor of a pretrial detainee. The defendants variously complain that the plaintiff failed to present sufficient evidence to underpin his claims, that the trial court erred in instructing the jury, and that the court botched several evidentiary rulings. Many of these claims are forfeit and the rest are without merit. Consequently, we affirm the judgment below.
I. BACKGROUND
The Hillsborough County jail houses both pretrial detainees and…
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