Legal Opinion
Rosa Maria Cristobal Miranda v. Miguel Gimenez Munoz, Rosa Maria Cristobal Miranda v. Miguel Gimenez Munoz
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 27, 1985No. 84-1664, 84-1757PublishedCited by 79 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFIN, Circuit Judge.
These appeals follow a jury trial of a Civil Rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiffs are the mother and brother of a 19-year-old epileptic who became critically ill while committed to the Arecibo District Jail as a pre-trial detainee and who died three days after being transferred to a local hospital. Plaintiffs alleged that a group of defendants exhibited “deliberate indifference” toward the decedent’s medical needs, thus inflicting cruel and unusual punishment upon him in violation of the Eighth Amendment. Estelle v. Gamble, 429 U.S. 97, 97 S.Ct. 285, 50…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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- Brady v. Southern Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1944
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