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BONCHER EX REL. BONCHER v. BROWN COUNTY

No. 01-1447.

272 F.3d 484 (2001)

Estate of James H. BONCHER, by Bernice BONCHER, Special Administrator, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. BROWN COUNTY, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 27, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kelly L. Centofanti (argued), Aiken & Scoptur, Milwaukee, WI, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Raymond J. Pollen, Michele M. Ford (argued), Crivello, Carlson, Mentkowski & Steeves, Milwaukee, Wi, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before FLAUM, Chief Judge, and POSNER and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

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. § 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, 99 S.Ct. 1861, 60 L.Ed.2d 447 (1979); ...

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