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Abstract: 

Boulder resident Ryan Partridge’s affliction with schizophrenia manifested by hallucinations, delusions and paranoia is a nightmare for him. For Boulder County jail officials, it is equally nightmarish compounded by the jail’s fundamental legal obligation to treat Ryan and provide him with safe conditions of confinement. In Partridge v. Smith, 2020 WL 897653 (D. Colo.), we have a very ill detainee who acted out his illness in a way that was detrimental to his best interests and deputies who hammered him with their fists and tasers perhaps to gain control, but also smacked of punishment. The court finds that Mr. Partridge has plausibly pleaded various instances in which defendant failed to reasonably accommodate him by using an unreasonable amount of force under the circumstances.

Keywords: Partridge v. Smith; schizophrenia

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