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Parties Involved:
County of Hennepin
Appellee
Richard Estensen
Appellee
Thomas Patrick Heryla
Appellant
Patrick D. McGowan
Appellee
Thomas Merkel
Appellee
Michele Smolley
Appellee

Document Text:

United States Court of Appeals

FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT

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No. 05-1977

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Thomas Patrick Heryla, *

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Appellant, *

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v. *

* Appeal from the United States

Hennepin County, Minnesota; * District Court for the

Patrick D. McGowan, Sheriff; * District of Minnesota.

Michele Smolley, Chief Deputy; * [UNPUBLISHED]

Thomas Merkel, Inspector; * 

Richard Estensen, Former *

Inspector, officially and individually, *

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Appellees. *

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Submitted: December 15, 2005

Filed: January 19, 2006 

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Before BYE, BOWMAN, and GRUENDER, Circuit Judges.

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PER CURIAM.

Thomas Patrick Heryla sued Hennepin County and certain county officials

under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging his federal constitutional rights were violated due to

a twenty-one-and-a-half-hour period of detention in the Hennepin County Adult

Appellate Case: 05-1977 Page: 1 Date Filed: 01/19/2006 Entry ID: 1998716
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The Honorable John R. Tunheim, United States District Judge for the District

of Minnesota.

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Detention Center (ADC) while Heryla was being booked. The district court1

 granted

Hennepin County's motion for summary judgment after concluding the length of the

delay was reasonable and the defendants' conduct was neither deliberately indifferent

to Heryla's constitutional rights nor conscience shocking. Heryla filed a timely

appeal.

We are guided and controlled in our disposition of this case by several recent

decisions involving similar challenges to the processing 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

Heryla 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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