[DOWNLOAD] "Estate of Boncher v. Brown County" by Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Estate of Boncher v. Brown County
- Author : Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 27, 2001
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 59 KB
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Argued September 5, 2001 James Boncher committed suicide in a cell of the Brown County (Wisconsin) jail, and this suit, brought by his estate under 42 U.S.C. sec. 1983, charges that the jail officials, and the County itself, were deliberately indifferent to the risk of Boncher's suicide and so deprived him of his life without due process of law. Bell v. Wolfish, 441 U.S. 520, 535 n. 16 (1979); Salazar v. City of Chicago, 940 F.2d 233, 239-40 (7th Cir. 1991). The district court granted summary judgment for the defendants. Boncher had been arrested after a domestic altercation. He had a long history of alcoholism and had attempted suicide at least three times, but this history was not known to the arresting officers or the personnel of the jail. Nor did they know that he had often told his ex-wife that he planned to kill himself in jail so that a lawsuit could be filed on behalf of his children. Interviewed during the booking process, Boncher answered ""yes"" when asked whether he had mental or emotional problems, and to the follow-up question whether he had ever attempted suicide answered, ""Yeah, a couple days ago, but I am fine now."" He said this in what the officers thought a joking manner--his entire manner since the arrest had been jovial and cooperative, and the officers thought him a ""happy drunk""--and when they followed up his answer by asking him whether he had any suicidal inclinations, he laughed and said he was ""fine."" One officer said, ""It seemed like he was joking around and that's the impression that we got."" So they put him in a regular cell rather than the jail's suicide-watch cell. He died within 45 minutes of being placed in the cell by hanging himself with a bedsheet.
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