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· 6/8/1916

Gillespie v. Winston's Trustee

Citations

  • 170 Ky. 667
  • 186 S.W. 517
  • 1916 Ky. LEXIS 118

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  • concluding officials had discretion in determining how to “comply with broad safety mandates,” such as the “broad and general mandate to protect human life”
  • decisions to have prisoner “walk unaided and shackled down a flight of stairs” were “discretionary, and they were plainly motivated by policy considerations.”

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Judges: Carroll

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