POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff, a correctional officer employed by the Cook County, Illinois, sheriff's office, was suspended pending termination proceedings before the sheriff's Merit Board. The proceedings had been instituted because of a belief that the plaintiff might have been negligent or otherwise at fault in failing to prevent a prisoner whom she was guarding from committing suicide. Her suspension began on July 24, 1998. Almost two years later, on April...
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