Legal Opinion
Robinson v. Washington County
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided August 21, 1987PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLIFFORD, Justice.
Cindy Robinson appeals from a judgment of the Superior Court, Washington County, granting the defendants’ motion to dismiss her complaint. She alleges that, as a pretrial ' detainee incarcerated first in the Washington County jail and later in the Franklin County jail, she suffered a miscarriage due to the grossly negligent and in-tentipnal conduct of Franklin County doctors and officials. Robinson sought dam ages from both Washington County and Harold Prescott, the Sheriff of Washington County, for personal injuries, the intentional infliction of emotional distress, the…
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