Cardenas v. Lewis.U.S. Appeals Court PRISONER ON PRISONER ASSAULT Cardenas v. Lewis, 66 Fed.Appx. 86 (9th Cir. 2003). [unpublished] A pretrial pre·tri·al n. A proceeding held before an official trial, especially to clarify points of law and facts. adj. 1. Of or relating to a pretrial. 2. detainee de·tain·ee n. A person held in custody or confinement: a political detainee. Noun 1. detainee - some held in custody political detainee brought a pro se [section] 1983 action against a county, alleging deliberate indifference to a substantial risk to his safety. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants and the detainee appealed. The appeals court affirmed in part and reversed and remanded in part. The appeals court held that officers who placed the detainee in a holding tank with an inmate INMATE. One who dwells in a part of another's house, the latter dwelling, at the same time, in the said house. Kitch. 45, b; Com. Dig. Justices of the Peace, B 85; 1 B. & Cr. 578; 8 E. C. L. R. 153; 2 Dowl. & Ry. 743; 8 B. & Cr. 71; 15 E. C. L. R. 154; 2 Man. & Ry. 227; 9 B. & Cr. , from whom the detainee was supposed to be kept separated, were not acting with deliberate indifference, even if the officers were negligent in failing to check the detainee's "keep separate" wristband wristband An identifying bracelet attached to a Pt's wrist at the time of admission to a health care facility, which may be the only identifier used during a person's stay in a hospital . The court found that the detainee was deprived of due process in disciplinary proceedings in which he was allegedly not allowed to call witnesses, to have his exculpatory exculpatory adj. applied to evidence which may justify or excuse an accused defendant's actions, and which will tend to show the defendant is not guilty or has no criminal intent. statement read, or to tape the hearings, and was placed in segregation without a hearing. (Yakima County Department of Corrections, Washington) |
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