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DOUGLAS v. YORK COUNTY

No. 03-2086.

360 F.3d 286 (2004)

Kristin DOUGLAS, a/k/a Tina Beth Martin, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. YORK COUNTY; York County Sheriff's Dep't; Unknown Defendants Deputy Sheriffs, Defendants, Appellees. York County Sheriff, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 11, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas F. Hallett for appellant.

Michael J. Donlan, with whom Verrill & Dana, LLP was on brief, for appellees.

Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Kristin Douglas brought a civil rights action in May 2002 alleging that she was gang raped over thirty years earlier, at age twenty-one, while she was incarcerated for a traffic violation in the York County Jail in Maine. Her suit claimed that a trustee prisoner who had keys to her cell entered the cell, raped her, and then let in other prisoners to the cell who also raped her.

Faced with the obvious question about why she had waited...

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