Woloszyn v. County of Lawrence.U.S. Appeals Court EXPERT WITNESS Woloszyn v. County of Lawrence, 396 F.3d 314 (3rd Cir. 2005). The administratrix ADMINISTRATRIX. This term is applied to a woman to whom letters of administration have been granted. See Administrator. of 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 who committed suicide in jail brought a [section] 1983 action and wrongful death claims against and county and corrections officers. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants and the administratrix appealed. The appeals court affirmed, finding that the administratrix failed to establish that the corrections officers were aware of the detainee's vulnerability to suicide. The court noted that even though a captain said he would put the detainee on five-minute checks, he also said that he would follow a nurse's advice. The nurse found the detainee to be polite, cooperative and alert, and cleared the detainee for one-hour checks for signs of alcohol withdrawal. The detainee told a booking officer he was not suicidal and appeared to be in good spirits Adv. 1. in good spirits - without losing equilibrium; "she took all his criticism in stride" in stride . The court found that the administratrix's expert failed to identify what specific type of training would have alerted officers to the fact that the detainee was suicidal. (Lawrence County Lawrence County is the name of eleven counties in the United States:
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