Marianne Dugan

Dresser v. Lane County

Submitted by Re'Neisha Stevenson on Wed, 11/30/2022 - 13:27

A 77-year-old retired psychologist with no criminal record, 5 feet 2 inches tall, 140 pounds, was falsely arrested, and injured by jail guards during book-in after expressing annoyance and confusion when denied access to his attorney’s phone number. One guard grabbed plaintiff’s left arm; a larger guard lunged suddenly from a side room, grabbed plaintiff’s arm and pulled it behind plaintiff’s back and upward, and slammed his left forearm behind plaintiff’s neck. This arm-bar maneuver caused a massive full-thickness rotator cuff tear of plaintiff’s right shoulder.