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EDWARDS v. GILBERT

No. 88-3348.

867 F.2d 1271 (1989)

Willie T. EDWARDS, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Dustin Wade Molbert, on behalf of the Estate and on behalf of the Survivor, Willie T. Edwards, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Larry GILBERT, individually and in his official capacity as Sheriff of Okaloosa County, and Leon Blackshear, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

February 28, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julius F. Parker, Jr., Parker, Skelding, McVoy & Labasky, Tallahassee, Fla., for defendants-appellants.

Randall C. Berg, Jr., Florida Justice Institute, Peter M. Siegel, Miami, Fla., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before TJOFLAT and EDMONDSON, Circuit Judges, and GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge.

EDMONDSON, Circuit Judge:

We reverse the district court's order denying summary judgment to defendants in their individual capacities in this 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action brought on behalf of a juvenile who committed suicide in prison; we conclude defendants are immune from suit.

Dustin Molbert, a juvenile, was tried as an adult and convicted of sexual assault on a child under the age of eleven years. While he was being held in the Okaloosa County Jail awaiting...

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