RELLERGERT v. CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY, MO.

No. 89-2862EM.

924 F.2d 794 (1991)

Christopher A. RELLERGERT, a minor child of Mark Wayne England, Deceased, by next friend, Melanie RELLERGERT, Appellant, v. CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY, MISSOURI; Sheriff Norman Copeland; and Deputy Paul Bedell, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided February 4, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Cook, Cape Girardeau, Mo., for appellant.

A.M. Spradling III, Cape Girardeau, Mo., for appellees.

Before BOWMAN and WOLLMAN, Circuit Judges, and FLOYD R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge.


FLOYD R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge.

This case presents the issue of whether the measures taken by the defendants-appellees to prevent the suicide of an inmate were sufficient to afford them the protection of qualified immunity where they knew of the inmate's suicidal tendency and provided against it, but where the inmate did kill himself.

I. BACKGROUND

Plaintiff-Appellant's putative father, Mark England, was paroled two months after being sentenced...

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