Randal J. Chatham v. Colonel Blake Adcock

Randal Chatham, a pro se prisoner, filed a complaint against three prison officials of the Coweta County Jail complaining that the officials showed deliberate indifference to a serious medical condition by denying him access to medication and failing to protect him from prisoner violence, in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. See U.S. Const., amend. VIII, XIV. The prison officials denied Chatham’s allegations and, as an affirmative defense, alleged that they were immune from suit under the doctrine of qualified immunity. Following an initial round of discovery, the officials…