Supreme Court of Alabama, 2001

Hill v. Chambless

Hill v. Chambless
Supreme Court of Alabama · Decided September 14, 2001 · Woodall, See, Lyons, Brown, Harwood, Stuart, Moore, Houston, Johnstone
813 So. 2d 810; 2001 Ala. LEXIS 351; 2001 WL 1075675 (Southern Reporter, Second Series)

Hill v. Chambless

Opinion of the Court

WOODALL, Justice.

AFFIRMED. NO OPINION

See Ala. R.App. P. 53(a)(1) and (a)(2)(E); Evans v. Hightower, 117 F.3d 1318 (11th Cir. 1997); Jenkins v. Talladega City Bd. of Educ., 115 F.3d 821 (11th Cir. 1997); Richards v. Southeast Alabama Youth Sews. Diversion Ctr., 105 F.Supp.2d 1268 (M.D.Ala. 2000); Couch v. City of Sheffield, 708 So.2d 144 (Ala. 1998).

SEE, LYONS, BROWN, HARWOOD, and STUART, JJ., concur. MOORE, C.J., and HOUSTON and JOHNSTONE, JJ., dissent.

Dissenting Opinion

HOUSTON, Justice

(dissenting).

I would reverse the trial court’s judgment and remand this case for a jury trial. Whether the police officers were deliberately indifferent in permitting Edwin Roy Bailey, Sr., the deceased, who had been arrested, to crawl across a street that had not been blocked to traffic was a question of fact. The officers got out of the way when they saw an oncoming automobile approaching; they left Bailey in the road, where he was struck by the oncoming vehicle and killed.

JOHNSTONE, J., concurs.

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