Legal Opinion
Cody Walton v. Robert Dawson
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided May 20, 2014No. 12-4000PublishedCited by 231 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RILEY, Chief Judge.
While in pretrial detention at the Macon County Jail (jail) in Missouri, Cody Lee Walton was the victim of a sexual assault. A troubled youth who bounced in and out of foster care, Walton was nineteen years old and weighed 135 pounds at the time of the assault. The thirty five year old rapist, Nathan Flennory, was a 195-pound registered sex offender with a history of violence: he stood convicted of second-degree assault on a law enforcement officer, domestic assault, and unlawful use of a weapon, and just four days before his assault on Walton, he pled guilty to forcible…
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