MIRANDA v. MUNOZ

Nos. 84-1664, 84-1757.

770 F.2d 255 (1985)

Rosa Maria Cristobal MIRANDA, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. Miguel Gimenez MUNOZ, et al., Defendants, Appellants. Rosa Maria Cristobal MIRANDA, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Miguel Gimenez MUNOZ, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided August 27, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jose E. Fernandez-Sein, Santurce, P.R., with whom Harvey B. Nachman, Maria H. Sandoval and Nachman & Fernandez-Sein, Santurce, P.R., were on brief for Rosa Maria Cristobal Miranda.

Doris Zoe Pons-Pagan, Asst. Sol. Gen., Dept. of Justice, San Juan, P.R., with whom Americo Serra, Acting Sol. Gen., San Juan, P.R., was on brief for Miguel Gimenez Munoz.

Before COFFIN, BOWNES and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.


COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

These appeals follow a jury trial of a Civil Rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiffs are the mother and brother of a 19-year-old epileptic who became critically ill while committed to the Arecibo District Jail as a pre-trial detainee and who died three days after being transferred to a local hospital. Plaintiffs alleged that a group of defendants exhibited "deliberate indifference" toward the decedent's medical needs, thus inflicting...

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