Judge dismisses state prison inmate's suit against Parkland
05:10 PM CST on Thursday, December 6, 2007
By SHERRY JACOBSON / The Dallas Morning News
sjacobson@dallasnews.com
A judge this week dismissed a two-year-old lawsuit against Parkland Memorial Hospital and Dallas County filed by a former county jail prisoner who claimed he received inadequate medical care.
In 2002, Jerry Wayne Mooney was injured in a shootout with police in which an Irving officer was also wounded. Mr. Mooney was treated at Parkland and subsequently turned over to the jail.
During his incarceration, he alleged that his abdominal wound split open and became infected. In granting summary judgment Tuesday in favor of the county and Parkland, U.S. Magistrate Judge William F. Sanderson Jr. found that Mr. Mooney not only had received adequate medical care but that Parkland doctors had performed four life-saving surgeries on him.
Mr. Mooney, 35, is serving a 45-year sentence in state prison on a felony assault charge stemming from the shooting.
Thank goodness the Judge is conservative. The libs would have let him go because his tummy ached. Shoot Out with the Police? The sue the hospital that saved his ass? Two in the chest and one int the head.