STATE v. WILSON

No. COA06-509.

643 S.E.2d 620 (2007)

STATE of North Carolina v. David Edward WILSON.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

May 1, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Attorney General Roy Cooper, by Jane Ammons Gilchrist, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

Nixon, Park, Gronquist, & Foster, by Mark P. Foster, Jr., Charlotte, for defendant-appellant.


STEELMAN, Judge.

The provision of medical care to prisoners in a county jail is a nondelegable duty such that an independent contractor hired to perform that duty is an agent of the Sheriff for purposes of N.C. Gen.Stat. § 14-27.7(a).

From May of 2003 through January of 2004, David Edward Wilson ("defendant") was employed by Prison Health Services as a mental health clinician. His duties required him to work with inmates in the Mecklenburg County Jail...

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