Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit June 19, 2012, 10-1470 (Daniel Simmonds v. Genesee County)

COLE, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which VARLAN, D.J., joined. MERRITT, J. (pp. 446-48), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.

OPINION

COLE, Circuit Judge.

Daniel Simmonds appeals the district court’s grant of the defendants’ motions for summary judgment on the basis of qualified immunity. As the defendants’ actions entitled them to qualified immunity, we AFFIRM.

I.

A.