A federal appeals court rejected a qualified immunity claim by Alabama guards following the death of a jailed Florida contractor from internal bleeding after a day of drinking and running his pickup truck off a rural road.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reversed a district judge, opening the door for a trial on the father’s civil suit alleging the guards showed deliberate indifference to serious medical needs of an inmate under their supervision.

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