JUSTUS v. COUNTY OF BUCHANAN

No. 1:06CV00117.

517 F.Supp.2d 810 (2007)

Shirley JUSTUS, Administrator of the Estate of Mark A. Justus, Deceased, Plaintiff, v. COUNTY OF BUCHANAN, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Virginia, Abingdon Division.

October 10, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S.D. Roberts Moore, Eunice P. Austin, William Wirt Brock, IV, Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore LLP, Roanoke, VA, Robert J. Breimann, Street Law Firm, LLP, Grundy, VA, for Plaintiff.

Jim H. Guynn, Jr., Guynn, Memmer & Dillon, P.C., Salem, VA, for Defendants.


OPINION

JAMES P. JONES, Chief Judge.

In this civil action seeking damages as the result of a jail suicide, I find that the plaintiff has failed to present sufficient evidence of liability and thus enter summary judgment in favor of the defendants.

I

On January 4, 2005, Mark A. Justus, a thirty-five-year-old college graduate with a long history of mental illness, tragically hung himself in the Buchanan County, Virginia, jail, where he was...

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