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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
HUNTER ALLEN LOOS,
Defendant-Appellant. |
No. 22-1629 |
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan at Marquette.
No. 2:21-cr-00005-1—Hala Y. Jarbou, Chief District Judge.
Decided and Filed: May 1, 2023
Before: SUTTON, Chief Judge; BATCHELDER and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.
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OPINION
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SUTTON, Chief Judge. Consumed by a toxic mixture of mental illness and drug
addiction, Hunter Loos stabbed his mother to death, drove her body to a nearby trail, doused it
with gasoline, and set her body on fire. He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, and the
district court imposed a 240-month sentence. Finding no error, we affirm. |
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KARLA HOWELL, as administratrix of the Estate of
Cornelius Pierre Howell,
Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
NAPHCARE, INC.; CHRISTINA JORDAN and PIERETTE
ARTHUR, individually and in their official capacities;
JIM NEIL, MATTHEW COLLINI, and DANIEL ERWIN,
individually and in their official capacities in the
Hamilton County Sheriff’s Department; JUSTIN HUNT,
Defendants-Appellees. |
Nos. 21-4132/22-3306 |
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio at Cincinnati.
No. 1:19-cv-00373—Douglas Russell Cole, District Judge.
Argued: October 20, 2022
Decided and Filed: May 1, 2023
Before: SUTTON, Chief Judge; STRANCH, and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.
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OPINION
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JANE B. STRANCH, Circuit Judge. Cornelius Pierre Howell died of a sickle cell crisis
while in pretrial custody at the Hamilton County Justice Center on December 9, 2018. Rather
than transport a distressed Howell to a local hospital, nurses and jail personnel placed him in a
restraint chair and put him in an observation room in the Jail’s mental health unit. Howell
remained strapped to the chair with minimal observation until jail personnel found him dead
approximately four hours later. His Estate sued the nurses, their employer, NaphCare, Inc., the
jail personnel, and Hamilton County for, as relevant to this appeal, deliberate indifference to his
serious medical needs, excessive force, and failure to train, all in violation of the Fourteenth
Amendment. The district court found that none of the Defendants violated Howell’s
constitutional rights and granted summary judgment. We AFFIRM IN PART, REVERSE IN
PART, and REMAND for further proceedings. |
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