Dismembered, dismissed

HOUSTON — A Texas federal court tossed portions of a mother’s lawsuit against four correctional officers over the murder and dismemberment of her son by his cellmate at Corcoran State Prison in California. The mother argued the officers knew the cellmate was extremely violent and said a bedsheet, hung over the front of the cell, should have been a sign that something was amiss, but the court finds these claim don’t show that the officers knew her son was in need of immediate medical care. Two of the officers have been indicted for murder.