Legal Opinion
Douglas v. York County
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 11, 2004No. 03-2086PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
Kristin Douglas brought a civil rights action in May 2002 alleging that she was gang raped over thirty years earlier, at age twenty-one, while she was incarcerated for a traffic violation in the York County Jail in Maine. Her suit claimed that a trustee prisoner who had keys to her cell entered the cell, raped her, and then let in other prisoners to the cell who also raped her.
Faced with the obvious question about why she had waited so long to bring suit, Douglas argued that she had suffered from pervasive mental illness for years and that the statute of limitations was…
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