Legal Opinion
Cooney v. Hooks
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided July 28, 1995No. C4-93-1877PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
COYNE, Justice.
Plaintiff Patrick J. Cooney sued Hennepin County and Bolden Hooks, claiming that while he was detained on a DWI charge in the Hennepin County Adult Detention Center (hereafter “jail”), he was sexually assaulted by Hooks, a fellow detainee. Hooks was subsequently acquitted of a felony charge arising from the incident. The issue in this suit against defendant county is whether the county is civilly liable for negligent breach of a duty to protect plaintiff from such an assault by a fellow detainee. A district court jury thought so, finding in plaintiff’s favor. The trial…
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- Saunders v. StateSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1982
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