Dyer v. Houston
Jury could find deliberate indifference where officers observed arrestee violently bang his head against interior of police car over 40 times during transport, but provided no medical care.
Jury could find deliberate indifference where officers observed arrestee violently bang his head against interior of police car over 40 times during transport, but provided no medical care.
57 y.o. man in diabetic crisis in prison denied medical care and instead restrained for fourteen minutes with deputies on his back until unresponsive and dead; survived by daughter.
Healthy, 40 y.o. man had a bad reaction to illegal drugs he took while in jail, denied adequate medical care for his drug-related psychosis, sustained spinal and head trauma of unknown origin, then jailors dragged him to a safety cell when he could not walk due to a spine fracture, at the direction of a nurse employed by a private jail medical provider. He was left face-down, paralyzed, on the floor of a safety cell for six hours with an untreated subdural hematoma. Plaintiff sustained quadriplegia, requiring life-long care.