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ASKEW v. SHERIFF OF COOK COUNTY, ILL.

No. 07-2190.

568 F.3d 632 (2009)

Carl ASKEW, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SHERIFF OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS, and Bernardo Lopez, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 18, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David A. Cerda, Attorney (argued), Cerda & Associates, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Richard A. Devine, Attorney, Jamie M. Sheehan, Attorney (argued), Office of the Cook County State's Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before FLAUM, ROVNER, and WOOD, Circuit Judges.

WOOD, Circuit Judge.

In August 2004, appellant Carl Askew was a pretrial detainee at the Cook County Jail. Askew alleges that, during his incarceration, officer Bernardo Lopez threw him to the ground without provocation and, after Askew asked to be transferred to another division in the jail for fear of harm from Lopez and other guards, deliberately left him alone with other inmates who later stabbed him. In August 2006, Askew filed this civil rights lawsuit, alleging...

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