Opinion ID: 4511896
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Sheriff Whetsel

Text: Mr. Turner attempted to allege supervisory liability claims against Sheriff Whetsel for failure to protect him from Mr. Stamps and failure to train OCDC personnel, thus allowing Mr. Stamps’s attack. He also alleged that Sheriff Whetsel failed to correct conditions at the OCDC identified in the 2008 DOJ report. But Sheriff Whetsel “cannot be held liable in his individual capacity for implementing [OCDC] policies or for the actions of [HM Scott] under a theory of supervisory liability, when there was no violation of [Mr. Turner’s] constitutional rights.” Martinez v. Beggs, 563 F.3d 1082, 1092 (10th Cir. 2009); accord Burke, 935 F.3d at 1010 (stating that a supervisor may not “be held liable based on an unconstitutional policy where there is no evidence of a constitutional violation by any individual subordinate”). We therefore affirm dismissal as to Sheriff Whetsel.