Legal Opinion
Delores Bradich, Administrator of the Estate of Melvin Bradich v. City of Chicago
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 1, 2005No. 04-3636PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
When police arrested Melvin Bradich on October 23,1999, he was drunk — fitting, as the reason for his arrest was a warrant for driving while intoxicated. He was no stranger to the lockup; this was his twenty-fourth arrest. Police booked him and put him in a cell at the stationhouse, pending his arraignment and transfer to the county jail. At this point matters departed from routine, because within 90 minutes Bradich had hanged himself. Officers could not revive him, nor could an emergency medical team dispatched by the fire department. Delores Bradich, his mother…
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