WHITNEY v. CITY OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI

No. 17-2019.

887 F.3d 857 (2018)

Norman WHITNEY, Sr., Plaintiff-Appellant v. CITY OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI; Shelley Sharp, in both her Official Capacity as a Corrections Officer and Individually, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: April 12, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Everett Hullverson, Jr. , HULLVERSON & HULLVERSON, Saint Louis, MO, Plaintiff-Appellant.

J. Brent Dulle , CITY COUNSELOR'S OFFICE, Saint Louis, MO, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before WOLLMAN, SHEPHERD, and ERICKSON, Circuit Judges.


Norman Whitney, Sr. ("Whitney Sr.") brought this action after his son, a pretrial detainee who had recently been treated for suicidal thoughts, hanged himself in a cell that was monitored by closed-circuit television. Whitney Sr. asserted state law wrongful death claims and federal claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against...

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