Spencer Charles Parker v. Don Carpenter, Sheriff

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• reversing dismissal of pro se suit by pretrial detainee who was attacked after being moved from low-risk minimum security section to overcrowded violent inmate section allegedly because of verbal altercation with jail officer
• directing district court to appoint counsel, without addressing the complexity of the case, because “without counsel, [Appellant] would have to investigate by himself the prison’s policies and employees of the very jail where he is incarcerated”
• transfer from low-risk minimum security section of jail to the overcrowded violent inmate section was actionable retaliation
• “[pretrial detainee] has plead that his transfer to the violent inmate section was an act of punishment which is a legal claim cognizable under a § 1983 claim.”
• failure to protect detainee from other detainee violence and failure to provide medical care
• failure to protect detainee from other detainee violence and failure to provide medical care

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