192478P.pdf   04/05/2021  Cecilia Perry  v.  Jermanda Adams
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  19-2478
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Smith, Chief Judge, and Loken, Circuit 
   Judge] 
   Civil case - Civil rights. In action alleging the defendants were 
   deliberately indifferent to a detainee's suicide risk, plaintiff alleged 
   defendant Adams, a St. Louis city jail officer, failed to notify detainee 
   intake personnel with the City of Jennings that the detainee was suicidal 
   when St. Louis transferred the detainee to the Jennings jail; the district 
   court denied Adams's motion for summary judgment based on qualified 
   immunity, and Adams appeals. Held, Adams was entitled to summary judgment. 
   Here, a mental health professional had determined that the detainee was 
   not suicidal and his classification as under Close Observation was, in an 
   of itself, indicative of the absence of suicide risk. As a result, Adams 
   did not violate any clearly established right as she was not required to 
   second-guess a mental health professional's judgment as to the 
   substantiality of a suicide risk.