Legal Opinion
Morris v. ZEFFERI
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 13, 2010No. 08-3141PublishedCited by 138 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RILEY, Chief Judge.
Thomas Edward Morris, III, filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against Armand Zefferi, a former Crawford County, Missouri, Sheriffs Department bailiff. Morris alleged Zefferi violated Morris’s constitutional rights when Zefferi transported Morris, who at the time was a pretrial detainee, in a dog cage in a K-9 vehicle during a ninety-minute drive from the Crawford County Jail to the Pulaski County Courthouse. The dog cage was approximately three and a half feet wide, three feet tall, and three feet deep. Morris claims the cage was littered with animal hair and dried dog urine…
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