United States Ninth Circuit

Prison guards are entitled to qualified immunity from suit where they inadvertantly shot plaintiff prisoners while trying to stop other prisoners from stabbing each other during a prison riot.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/20/2001
• Published 02/20/2001

Judges

• ALDISERT, Circuit Judge:, Before:  ALDISERT,KOZINSKI  and GRABER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jesse M. Rivera,Michael E. Vinding, Law Offices of Moreno & Rivera, Sacramento, California, for defendant-appellant Sam Bess., Douglas P. Adams, Adams & Mason, Inc., Sacramento, California, for defendant-appellant Margaret Yerby., John D. Adkisson, Sacramento, California, for defendant-appellant James Gomez., Jennifer Weck, Deputy Attorney General, San Diego, California, for defendant-appellant Theo White., John H. Scott, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiff-appellee.