Legal Opinion
Rellergert v. Cape Girardeau County
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 4, 1991No. 89-2862EMPublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLOYD R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge.
This case presents the issue of whether the measures taken by the defendants-ap-pellees to prevent the suicide of an inmate were sufficient to afford them the protection of qualified immunity where they knew of the inmate’s suicidal tendency and provided against it, but where the inmate did kill himself.
I. BACKGROUND
Plaintiff-Appellant’s putative father, Mark England, was paroled two months after being sentenced to a one-year prison term in Cape Girardeau County Jail for resisting arrest. A condition of his parole was that he maintain employment, which he…
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