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Vigilante Attack on Prisoner Requires Trial
Loaded on June 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
June, 1998, page 25
The court of appeals for the second circuit held that issues of fact as to whether guards were personally involved in a vicious attack on a prisoner, precluded summary judgment for the guards. The court also held that a statement allegedly made by one of the guards to one of ...
Filed under:
Threats by Staff,
Failure to Protect (General),
Civil Procedure,
Summary Judgment,
Evidentiary Ruling.
Location:
New York.
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