Johnson v. Clafton

OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT [18] AND GRANTING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO APPOINT COUNSEL [28]

LAURIE J. MICHELSON, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

Following Plaintiff Ronald Johnson’s arrest in October 2011, he was detained at *840the Wayne County Jail while awaiting trial. Johnson says that during his pretrial detention — sixteen months in all — Defendant Dr. Thomas Clafton, the jail’s .medical director, was deliberately indifferent to his severe 'pain and infected ulcers. Clafton disagrees and seeks .summary judgment. Magistrate Judge R.…