Torrin Karl Oertwig v. Hennepin Cty.

162 F. App'x 676

Opinion

PER CURIAM.

Thomas Patrick Heryla sued Hennepin County and certain county officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging his federal constitutional rights were violated due to a twenty-one-and-a-half-hour period of detention in the Hennepin County Adult Detention Center (ADC) while Heryla was being booked. The district court 1 granted Hennepin County’s motion for summary judgment after concluding the length of the delay was reasonable and the defendants’ conduct was neither deliberately indifferent to Heryla’s constitutional rights nor conscience shocking. Heryla filed a timely appeal.

We are guided and controlled in our disposition of this case by several recent decisions involving similar challenges to the processing procedures at the ADC, some of which involved a longer period of detention than the period of detention at issue in this case. See Lund v. Hennepin County, 427 F.3d 1123 (8th Cir.2005); Russell v. Hennepin County, 420 F.3d 841 (8th Cir.2005); Golberg v. Hennepin County, 417 F.3d 808 (8th Cir.2005); Luckes v. County of Hennepin, 415 F.3d 936 (8th Cir.2005); Stepnes v. Hennepin County, 153 Fed.Appx. 410 (8th Cir.2005) (unpublished); and Killingham v. County of Hennepin, 152 Fed.Appx. 554 (8th Cir.2005) (unpublished). All of the issues raised by Heryla were addressed and decided in Hennepin County’s favor in one or more of the above cases. We therefore affirm the judgment of the district court in favor of Hennepin County in this case.

1 . The Honorable John R. Tunheim, United States District Judge for the District of Minnesota.