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· 3/1/2005

Darryl Gray, Personal Representative of Estate of Mark Gray, Deceased v. City of Detroit and Police Officer Douglas Gross

Citations

  • 399 F.3d 612
  • 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 3419
  • 2005 WL 464856

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that no constitutional violation occurred when a detainee who went unobserved for nearly an hour committed suicide
  • holding that a duty “to provide adequate medical care . . . is readily distinguishable from the more narrow duty to try to prevent foreseeable suicides”
  • concluding that the only way any individual officer would have inferred that the inmate was a suicide risk was to have collective knowledge of every other officer’s information regarding the inmate’s behavior
  • noting that the Supreme Court has adopted an objective \obviousness\ standard for training program adequacy
  • noting that the Supreme Court has adopted an objective “obviousness” standard for training program adequacy
  • finding that only two inmate suicides in an eight-year period insufficient to establish notice of a pattern of constitutional violations

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Judges: Merritt, Gibbons, Rogers

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