Morton
Morton v. County of San Diego
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 MARILYN MORTON, et al. Case No.: 21-cv-1428-MMA-DDL
Plaintiffs,
ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND
v. DENYING IN PART AS MOOT
PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION TO
COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO, et al.,
COMPEL PRODUCTION OF
Defendants. DOCUMENTS
16 [Dkt. No. 114] 17 I. INTRODUCTION Joseph Morton committed suicide in May 2020 while in custody at the Vista Detention Facility. Plaintiffs seek to compel the County of San Diego (“County”) to produce 19 reports generated by the San Diego Sheriff’s Department’s Critical Incident Review Board (“CIRB”) pertaining to other in-custody suicides from January 2015 to May 2020. Plaintiffs also seek to compel production of Sheriff’s Department Internal Affairs reports pertaining to three of those suicides and Citizens Law Enforcement Review Board (“CLERB”) reports in the County’s possession. The primary issue is…