Wickham v. Fisher

STEWART, Justice:

Petitioner Mark Wickham was a pretrial detainee at the Weber County jail at the time this case was at issue in the trial court. He attacked the conditions of confinement at the jail as being in violation of the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and the cruel and unusual punishment prohibition of the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution. The District Court for Weber County granted partial relief in response to Wickham’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus, and he appeals. Wickham contends that the relief granted by the district court is insufficient…