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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 

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The Honorable Donovan W. Frank, United States District Judge for the District

of Minnesota.

United States Court of Appeals

FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT

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No. 05-1470

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Roger Thomas Sizer, *

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Appellant, *

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v. *

* Appeal from the United States

County of Hennepin; Patrick D. * District Court for the

McGowan; Michele Smolley, * District of Minnesota.

Chief Deputy; Thomas Merkel, * [UNPUBLISHED]

Inspector; Richard Estensen, Former *

Inspector, *

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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.

Roger Thomas Sizer sued Hennepin County and certain county officials under

42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging his federal constitutional rights were violated due to a tenhour period of detention in the Hennepin County Adult Detention Center (ADC) after

Sizer posted bail. The district court1

 granted Hennepin County's motion for summary

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judgment after concluding the length of the delay was objectively reasonable and not

unconstitutional. Sizer 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Cir. Nov. 22, 2005) (unpublished); and Killingham v. County of Hennepin, No. 04-

3216, 2005 WL 2807117 (8th Cir. Oct. 28, 2005) (unpublished).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 Sizer 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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