United States Sixth Circuit

Defendants' convictions and sentences on charges arising from their participation as corrections officers in a conspiracy to violate the rights of detainees and prisoners of a county jail are affirmed over challenges to: 1) the sufficiency of the evidence to support one defendant's conviction and the reasonableness of his 70-month sentence; and 2) the life sentence imposed on one count for other defendant's part in the denial of necessary and appropriate medical care that resulted in the death of a detainee.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/04/2008
• Published 02/04/2008

Judges

• Before GUY, MOORE, and GILMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Phillip L. Davidson, Nashville, Tennessee, David L. Raybin, Hollins, Wagster, Yarbrough, Weatherly & Raybin, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellants.  Angela M. Miller, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Phillip L. Davidson, Nashville, Tennessee, David L. Raybin, Patrick T. McNally, Hollins, Wagster, Yarbrough, Weatherly & Raybin, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellants.  Angela M. Miller, Jessica Dunsay Silver, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Appellee.