Opinion ID: 2766199
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Heading: The Attack on 8 July 2010

Text: While Losey sat writing by the desk, Whitehead rose, walked over to the cell door, closed and locked the door, and turned off the lights inside the cell. Whitehead then walked back over to Losey and put him in a chokehold. He told Losey to lay flat on his stomach on the lower bunk. (Id. at 43-44) Losey’s head was positioned towards the door, with his face in the blanket at the foot of the bed. Whitehead proceeded to rape Losey. Losey initially pleaded with Whitehead, but “knew that it was pointless . . . to really fight” and did not further resist Whitehead’s attack. In his deposition, Losey states he was unsure exactly how long the rape lasted, but it was at least fifteen or twenty minutes. In the incident report filed following the attack, Losey stated that he believed the rape occurred at approximately 11:00 p.m. In his deposition, Losey stated that it was likely 10:00 or 10:30 when he was placed in the chokehold. Losey acknowledges that he did not know, even at the time of the incident, the precise time the rape occurred. At some point during the rape, however, Losey recalls another inmate calling “twelve,” which was the signal for a correctional officer entering the dorm. Following this signal, and still during the rape, Losey observed the presence of an officer with a flashlight at the window to Whitehead’s cell. The officer shined the flashlight through the window in the door, in a “swaying motion” across the cell. 4 Case: 14-13748 Date Filed: 01/02/2015 Page: 5 of 16 The light from the flashlight did not illuminate the cell, but rather cast a beam within the cell. The flashlight remained at the window for three to five seconds. From Losey’s perspective, the officer was “looking in the room but not looking in the room, to where she was maybe, [ ] looking more [ ] towards the lockers to make it look like she was looking in but not actually looking in.” Losey introduced no testimony that the officer acknowledged the presence of two bodies on the lower bunk of the cell. Nor did Losey get a clear view of the officer who was standing at the window. Upon initial questioning in his deposition, Losey described the guard as “female” and “probably a little bit heavier set.” When initially asked about the guard’s race, Losey said she was white. Defendant Officer Nail is AfricanAmerican. Losey acknowledges that he does not know Officer Nail. Clarifying his statement in response to further direct questioning, Losey admitted: “I didn’t see the person at all, really.” Losey explained that he saw the officer’s hair and part of her uniform, and that he again saw the uniform and same color hair as the officer walked along the upper level of the dorm across the hall some minutes later. And in response to later questioning by his own counsel, Losey explained that he “couldn’t see” the officer at the cell door with the flashlight, but that he “saw the one upstairs” and “just assumed” that it was the same officer. 5 Case: 14-13748 Date Filed: 01/02/2015 Page: 6 of 16