HARRIMAN v. HANCOCK COUNTY

No. 09-2284.

627 F.3d 22 (2010)

David HARRIMAN, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. HANCOCK COUNTY, a Political Subdivision of the State of Maine; William Clark, in his Personal and Professional Capacities as Sheriff of Hancock County Sheriff Department; Ryan Haines, in his Personal and Professional Capacities as Corrections Officer of Hancock County Sheriff Department; Heather Sullivan; Michael Pileski, in his Personal and Professional Capacities as Corrections Officer of Hancock County Sheriff Department; Karen McCarty, in her Personal and Professional Capacities as Corrections Officer of Hancock County Sheriff Department; Troy Richardson, in his Personal and Professional Capacities as Corrections Officer of Hancock County Sheriff Department, Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 6, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dale F. Thistle , with whom Law Office of Dale F. Thistle was on brief, for appellant.

Peter T. Marchesi , with whom Cassandra S. Shaffer and Wheeler & Arey, P.A. were on brief, for appellees.

Before TORRUELLA, SELYA and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.


HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

This civil rights action involves competing accounts of an arrestee's weekend stay in Maine's Hancock County Jail. Plaintiff David Harriman, although he remembers virtually nothing that occurred over the entire weekend, contends that one or more correctional officers beat him until he sustained a lasting brain injury. Defendants Hancock County, its sheriff and several correctional officers assert that Harriman

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