A federal court judge has dismissed the case of a Wheatland man who sued Platte County Sheriff’s Deputies last year, for sending him to jail rather than the hospital despite his 0.357% blood-alcohol content.

Bryan Hays had a withdrawal seizure in the jail’s shower, sustaining brain damage and facial damage, his original lawsuit complaint from last April says. That document also says Hays had to re-learn how to walk over the course of several weeks, after spending one week in a coma.

U.S. District Court Judge Scott Skavdahl judged half of the case in the deputies’ favor last week, saying Hays’ claims of false arrest and deputies’ alleged “deliberate indifference” toward his health didn’t carry enough evidence to overcome the deputies’ legal defense of qualified immunity.

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