Opinion ID: 3052709
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Heading: Jeff Rogers

Text: Jeff Rogers was employed by the Pima County Sheriff’s Department as a corrections officer from November 1979 11246 MCMURTREY v. RYAN through August 1981. Rogers readily recalled McMurtrey because they interacted every day. Rogers testified that McMurtrey’s behavior was erratic and that he often moved around in what the guards characterized as a “Thorazine shuffle.” Rogers explained that this was not a medical diagnosis, but a colloquial term referring to McMurtrey’s “shuffling walk,” “glazed eyes,” and being “not very alert.” As time passed, McMurtrey’s “stupor state” became more common, and by summer (and the trial), McMurtrey was in a stupor two thirds of the time that Rogers saw him. Rogers believed that McMurtrey received medication about three times a day because Rogers often accompanied the jail nurse as she dispensed medicine to each inmate.