Legal Opinion
Donald Gagne, Etc. v. City of Galveston, and Mike Putnal
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 9, 1986No. 85-2883PublishedCited by 87 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*559PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:
Police officers are entitled to assert the defense of qualified immunity for all acts and omissions that occur in the course of their official duties. In this case, which arose from a jail suicide on May 17, 1983, we hold that the arresting officer was not under a clearly established constitutional duty to discover the prisoner’s suicidal tendencies or to deprive him of the means of killing himself. Accordingly, the § 1983 action against the officer must be dismissed.
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According to the complaint in this civil rights action, Officer Mike Putnal and another…
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