Opinion ID: 3027396
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Heading: Officer’s Liability

Text: In order to show Officer Herron’s liability, Plaintiff “has the burden of establishing three elements: (1) the detainee had a particular vulnerability to suicide, (2) the custodial officer or officers knew or should have known of that vulnerability, and (3) those officers ‘acted with reckless indifference’ to the detainee's particular vulnerability.” Colburn v. Upper Darby Twp., 946 F.2d 1017, 1023 (3d Cir. 1991). She has not met this burden. In order for a “particular vulnerability to suicide” to exist there must be a “strong likelihood, rather than a mere possibility, that self-inflicted harm will occur.” Id. at 1024. Here, Joines was