Dominic John Carter v. Hennepin Cty. ( 2006 )


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  •                     United States Court of Appeals
    FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT
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    No. 05-1468
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    Dominic John Carter,                     *
    *
    Appellant,                  *
    *
    v.                                 *
    * Appeal from the United States
    Hennepin County; Patrick D.              * District Court for the
    McGowan, Sheriff; Michele Smolley, * District of Minnesota.
    Chief Deputy; Thomas Merkel,             * [UNPUBLISHED]
    Inspector; Richard Estensen, Former      *
    Inspector, officially and individually,  *
    *
    Appellees.                  *
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    Submitted: December 14, 2005
    Filed: January 19, 2006
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    Before BYE, BOWMAN, and GRUENDER, Circuit Judges.
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    PER CURIAM.
    Dominic John Carter sued Hennepin County and certain county officials under
    42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging his federal constitutional rights were violated due to a
    seven-and-a-half-hour period of detention in the Hennepin County Adult Detention
    Center (ADC) after a judge ordered him to be released. The district court1 granted
    1
    The Honorable David S. Doty, United States District Judge for the District of
    Minnesota.
    Hennepin County's motion for summary judgment after concluding Carter failed to
    show deliberate indifference to his constitutional rights. Carter filed a timely appeal.
    We are guided and controlled in our disposition of this case by several recent
    decisions involving similar challenges to the outprocessing procedures at the ADC,
    some of which involved a longer period of detention than the period of detention at
    issue in this case. See Lund v. Hennepin County, 
    427 F.3d 1123
    (8th Cir. 2005);
    Russell v. Hennepin County, 
    420 F.3d 841
    (8th Cir. 2005); Golberg v. Hennepin
    County, 
    417 F.3d 808
    (8th Cir. 2005); Luckes v. County of Hennepin, 
    415 F.3d 936
    (8th Cir. 2005); Stepnes v. Hennepin County, No. 05-2059, 
    2005 WL 3113440
    (8th
    Cir. Nov. 22, 2005) (unpublished); and Killingham v. County of Hennepin, No. 04-
    3216, 
    2005 WL 2807117
    (8th Cir. Oct. 28, 2005) (unpublished). All of the issues
    raised by Carter were addressed and decided in Hennepin County's favor in one or
    more of the above cases. We therefore affirm the judgment of the district court in
    favor of Hennepin County in this case.
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