Brown v. Washington County

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• holding that defendant could be held liable for failure to warn about the dangerousness of an inmate within its custody
• holding that defendant could be held liable for failure to warn about the dangerousness of an inmate within its custody
• a reasonable jury could find that failure to warn plaintiffs decedent of offender’s escape unreasonably created a foreseeable risk that he would be violently assaulted
• defendant knew its inmate had a violent history, was agitated, and was likely to go to the address where the plaintiff was injured
• against county for harm caused by county corrections center escapee

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).