Legal Opinion
Townsend v. Jefferson County
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided March 30, 2010No. 08-15583PublishedCited by 139 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRYOR, Circuit Judge:
We sua sponte vacate and reconsider our original opinion in this matter. We substitute the following opinion for our original opinion.
This interlocutory appeal presents the question whether two deputies at a county jail were deliberately indifferent to the serious medical need of a pregnant detainee who had used crack cocaine daily. The undisputed evidence proves that both deputies knew that a nurse at the jail had seen and spoken with the detainee, and it is undisputed that the nurse determined that the detainee’s medical need was not an emergency. Sherika Townsend…
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