Joan Mullin v. Karen Balicki

OPINION OF THE COURT

FUENTES, Circuit Judge.

A little over two years into the civil-rights suit brought by Joan Mullin (“Mul-lin”) over the tragic prison suicide of her son, Robert Mullin (“Robert”), Mullin’s attorney received a discovery document with the potential to reshape the case. A previously undisclosed investigative report about, the night Robert died contained statements by fellow New Jersey inmates about a prison guard who allegedly refused Robert’s requests for psychiatric assistance—and urged Robert to kill himself instead. But while Mullin’s attorney received this report mid-case,…