PENN v. ESCORSIO

No. 13-2309.

764 F.3d 102 (2014)

Cathy PENN, in her capacity as Guardian of Matthew Lalli, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. Angela ESCORSIO and Dane Winslow, individually and in their official capacities as Knox County Corrections Officers, Defendants, Appellants, and Knox County; Knox County Sheriff's Department; Knox County Jail; Donna Dennison, in her official capacity as Knox County Sheriff; and Julie Stilkey, Christopher Truppa, Warren Heath IV, Robert Wood, John Hinkley, Kathy Carver, Warren Heath III, and Bradley Woll, individually and in their official capacities as Knox County Corrections Officers, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

August 22, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Nolan L. Reichl , with whom Ralph I. Lancaster , Daniel J. Stevens , Catherine R. Connors , and Pierce Atwood LLP were on brief, for appellee.

Before THOMPSON, BALDOCK, and SELYA, Circuit Judges.


BALDOCK, Circuit Judge.

Defendants Dane Winslow and Angela Escorsio were involved in a series of troubling events that led to the attempted — and nearly completed — suicide of Matthew Lalli. Lalli was at the time a pre-trial detainee being held at the jail where Defendants work as corrections officers. Lalli's guardian, Plaintiff Cathy Penn, sued Defendants. Penn claimed, among other things, deliberate indifference in violation of Lalli's Fourteenth...

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