Jimmy Letterman v. Jerry Farnsworth

How courts have described this case

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• holding jury could infer defendant acted with deliberate indifference in refusing to allow medical personnel to check on nonresponsive inmate based in part on defendant’s statement to “let sleeping dogs lie”
• stating that deliberate indifference requires showing more than negligence
• discussing officer’s failure to seek medical attention after decedent banged his head against a concrete wall and had not moved in roughly 12 hours, and whom another officer had been unable to wake up
• “We must avoid determining the question [of deliberate indifference] with hindsight’s perfect vision.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “To survive a challenge based on qualified immunity, a plaintiff must show the defendants violated a person’s constitutional right and the constitutional right was clearly established at the time of the violation.” (emphasis added)
• “After showing knowledge, Plaintiffs then must demonstrate the actor deliberately disregarded that risk.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).