Legal Opinion
BUTLER v. BERKS COUNTY JAIL
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided November 4, 2019No. 5:19-cv-00515Unknown
1Opinion
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA JOSHUA ANTHONY JAMES BUTLER : CIVIL ACTION v. NO. 19-515 OFFICER LOMBARDO MEMORANDUM KEARNEY, J. November 4, 2019 An inmate claiming a correctional officer violated his civil rights by failing to protect him from a prison block worker or possibly another inmate who cut him with a knife at an unidentified time must allege the officer’s deliberate indifference to a substantial risk to the inmate’s health and safety and this deliberate indifference caused him harm. He needs to plead facts and not guesswork. Supposing…
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