U.S. District Court: SUICIDE ATTEMPT.

Stewart v. Robinson 115 F.Supp.2d 188 (D.N.H. 2000). The guardian of a pretrial detainee brought a civil rights action against police and county officials to recover for injuries sustained by the detainee as the result of a suicide attempt which left the detainee in a vegetative state. The district court granted summary judgment for the defendants, finding that neither the police department nor the county could be held liable for the suicide attempt. The suicide attempt occurred four days after the detainee was transferred from the police departments custody to the jail. Although police officers were possibly negligent by failing to complete an available intake form, the court found that the department could not be held liable. The court held that the record did not suggest that jail officials or the county...

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