BOWEN v. WARDEN BALDWIN STATE PRISON

No. 15-11109.

826 F.3d 1312 (2016)

Walker D. BOWEN, as administrator of the Estate of Terrance Desmond Bowen, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WARDEN, BALDWIN STATE PRISON, Doug Underwood, Deputy Warden of Security, Baldwin State Prison, Cager Edward Davis, Correction Officer, Baldwin State Prison, Defendants-Appellees, Anthony Brookins, Lieutenant, Baldwin State Prison, et al., Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Filed June 22, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary Bunch , Gary Bunch, PC, Carrollton, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Cristina Maria Correia , Samuel Scott Olens , Devon Orland , Attorney General's Office, Atlanta, GA, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before ED CARNES, Chief Judge, JILL PRYOR and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges.


On March 9, 2010, Terrance Bowen was beaten to death by his cellmate, Carl Merkerson, at Baldwin State Prison in Milledgeville, Georgia. The administrator of Mr. Bowen's estate brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that Mr. Bowen's Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment was...

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