Shannon Andre Smith v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that to meet the subjective element of a deliberate indifference claim, a plaintiff must show defendant knew of an objectively serious medical risk and then consciously disregarded that risk
• holding that a deputy warden was not deliberately indifferent when “officials had not yet . . . completed the investigation of the first attack at the time [he] approved [the plaintiff’s] return to general population”
• explaining that “deliberate indifference requires a highly culpable state of mind approaching actual intent”
• “Blair’s theory of the existence of a hit being placed on him had no evidentiary support beyond his suspicions.”
• “an official’s failure to alleviate a significant risk that he should have perceived but did not, while no cause for commendation” does not establish deliberate indifference
• a prison official’s “failure to alleviate a significant risk that he should have 9 perceived but did not, while no cause for commendation, cannot under our cases be condemned as the infliction of punishment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).