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Parties Involved:
Charles Hamner
Plaintiff
Dean Mannis
Defendant
Patricia Snyder
Defendant

Document Text:

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS 

DELTA DIVISION 

CHARLES HAMNER 

ADC #143063 

v. No. 2:22-cv-158-DPM-JTK 

DEAN MANNIS, Chief Executive 

Officer/Sheriff, Arkansas County 

Detention Center and 

PATRICIA SNYDER, Former Jail 

Administrator/Officer, Arkansas 

County Detention Center 

ORDER 

PLAINTIFF 

DEFENDANTS 

1. On de novo review, the Court adopts Magistrate Judge 

Kearney's partial recommendation, Doc. 48, as modified. Fed. R. Civ. 

P. 72(b) (1983 addition to advisory committee notes). Hamner was 

booked into the Arkansas County Detention Center as a pretrial 

detainee in early May 2021. He claims he was deprived of his mental 

health medications for six weeks: from the time he was booked until 

mid-June 2021. Doc. 46 at 4. Mannis and Snyder say he was only 

without his prescriptions for about two weeks: from mid-May 2021 to 

early June 2021. It's undisputed that Hamner attempted suicide on 

5 May 2021 and that he didn't see a doctor until 1 June 2021. Doc. 36 

at 1-2. There's also evidence he attempted suicide again in late May. 

Doc. 46 at 76. The risk of suicide is a serious medical need. Leftwich ex 

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rel. Leftwich v. Dakota County, 9 F.4th 966, 972 (8th Cir. 2021). 

And there's a genuine factual dispute about whether Mannis and 

Snyder knew that Hamner wasn't receiving his medication. 

See, e.g., Doc. 46 at 58, 61-62, 74. On this record, summary judgment is 

inappropriate. Hartsfield v. Colburn, 371 F.3d 454, 457 (8th Cir. 2004). 

2. Hamner' s conditions-of-confinement claims involve 

questions of law and fact common to those in a separate case pending 

before another Judge of this Court. See Doc. 8 at 8-9 in Hamner v. 

Lewis, Case No. 2:21-cv-62-BSM-PSH (E.D. Ark. 2021). That case is set 

for trial in February 2024. Hamner's conditions-of-confinement claims 

are severed. The Court directs the Clerk to transfer and consolidate 

them with the case pending before Judge Miller. Fed. R. Civ. P. 

42(a)(2). Hamner's claims that Mannis and Snyder were deliberately 

indifferent to his serious medical needs remain before me in this case. 

This series of steps is the one modification to the Magistrate Judge's 

recommendation. 

* * * 

Partial recommendation, Doc. 48, adopted as modified. 

Hamner' s objections, Doc. 49, overruled. Mannis' s and Snyder's 

objections, Doc. 50, sustained. Mannis's and Snyder's motion for 

summary judgment, Doc. 34, denied. Hamner' s motion for summary 

judgment, Doc. 44, denied. Conditions-of-confinement claims severed, 

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transferred to Judge Miller, and consolidated in Case No. 2:21-cv-62-

BSM-PSH. 

So Ordered. 

(/ 

D.P. Marshall Jr. 

United States District Judge 

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