A federal appeals court in Denver has overturned a lower court’s dismissal of claims in a civil rights case involving a former Colorado sheriff convicted of misconduct and an intellectually disabled prisoner.
A split panel from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a ruling by a lower court that had dismissed claims against Sedgwick County. The claims were in relation to then-Sheriff Tom Hanna, who was found guilty in 2018 of official misconduct and found liable for civil rights abuses against then-inmate Peatinna Biggs while transporting her between county jails on Aug. 10, 2016.
