161410P.pdf   06/22/2017  Jimmy Letterman  v.  Steven Lammers
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  16-1410
                          and No:  16-1771
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - St. Joseph   
   [PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Murphy and Kelly, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Civil rights. For the court's prior opinion affirming in part 
   the district court's denial of defendants' motion for summary judgment in 
   this action arising out of the death of plaintiffs' son at the Western 
   Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center of the Missouri Department 
   of Corrections, see Letterman v. Does, 789 F.3d 856 (8th Cir. 2015). 
   Evidence was sufficient to support an award of damages for pain and 
   suffering; the act of reporting a medical emergency when a response is not 
   received from a prisoner was not discretionary under the facility's 
   close-observation policy, and the defendants were not entitled to official 
   immunity; the district court did not err in excluding evidence that the 
   medical staff at the prison were unconcerned with the decedent's 
   unresponsiveness after he fell and hit his head because they thought he 
   was sleeping; evidence of what the staff thought but did not disclose is 
   irrelevant and inadmissible; defendants have waived their challenge to 
   certain evidentiary issues by failing to provide any reason why the 
   district court abused its discretion in excluding the evidence under Rule 
   403.