Opinion ID: 3063798
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Heading Rank: 3

Heading: December 14, 2007, Motion for Summary Judgment

Text: On December 14, 2007, Defendants filed their motion for summary judgment and numerous exhibits, including Dr. Copeland’s affidavit.1 In his affidavit, Dr. Copeland stated that “Haynes did not have any lacerations or bruising, nor did he present any other indicia that he had been the victim of a physical attack or that he had suffered any traumatic injury.” Dr. Copeland recognized that Haynes’s medical history at Mitchell County Hospital indicated that Haynes had a “hematoma” on the right side of his skull on October 14, 2004. Dr. Copeland stated that “neither Nurse Hutchinson nor myself observed or recorded any evidence of a hematoma on Mr. Haynes’ admission to Pheobe [sic] Putnam [sic] Medical Center” on October 16, 2004. In addition, Dr. Copeland averred that “[t]here was no medical evidence to suggest that Mr. Haynes was the victim of any assault or suffered any major trauma that caused cerebral hemorrhage.” Dr. Copeland stated that “[i]t was and is [his] opinion that Mr. Haynes’ aneurysm developed from natural causes and was not the result of assault or trauma.”