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New Trial Ordered in Excessive Use of Force Suit
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2002, page 28
A federal district court in New York has ordered a new trial in a civil rights excessive use of force suit. Prisoner Milton Ruffin filed suit against Sullivan Correctional Facility guard Van Fuller for an incident which occurred on October 19, 1998. Ruffin was confined in the Special Housing Unit ...
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Civil Procedure,
New Trial Motions,
Witnesses.
Location:
New York.
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