Stewart v. Colman

WATSON, R.O., Associate Judge.

Appellant, Plaintiff, Michelle Stewart, appeals a summary judgment entered in favor of Appellee, Defendant, Melvin G. Col-man as Sheriff of Orange County, Florida.

Plaintiff and a friend were hitchhiking when they were picked up by a deputy sheriff and lectured about hitchhiking. Plaintiff and her friend had been drinking and taking quaaludes during the evening. When Plaintiff developed breathing difficulties the deputy summoned rescue.

When the ambulance arrived with two medics, Plaintiff was lying down and deputies were trying to restrain her. She was observed…