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HANCHETT v. SALINE COUNTY BD. OF COM'RS

No. 00-2075-JWL.

194 F.Supp.2d 1150 (2001)

Robert B. HANCHETT, and Shelly D. Hanchett, individually and as administrators of the Estate of Jarrod R. Hanchett, Deceased, Plaintiffs, v. SALINE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, and Saline County Sheriff Glen Kochanowski, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Kansas.

Memorandum and Order Denying Reconsideration June 29, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henri J. Watson, Watson & Dameron, LLP, Kansas City, MO, for Plaintiff.

M. Kathryn Webb, David L. Vogel, McDonald, Tinker, Skaer, Quinn & Herrington, P.A., Wichita, KS, for Defendant.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

LUNGSTRUM, District Judge.

This action arises out of the suicide of Jarrod Hanchett on October 17, 1997 while incarcerated in the Saline County Jail. Jarrod hanged himself in his single-person cell by looping a bed sheet through an air vent located approximately seven feet above the ground. Jarrod was the third inmate to hang himself from an air vent since the opening of the jail's single-person cells in April, 1995. On February 14,...

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