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Third Circuit Allows Prisoner's Substitution of Deceased Guard’s Estate
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2013, page 35
Filed under:
Guard Misconduct,
Failure to Treat,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Civil Procedure,
Parties,
Service,
Qualified Immunity.
Location:
Delaware.
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals held on October 16, 2012 that a district court had improperly denied a prisoner’s motion to substitute a deceased guard’s estate as a defendant.
Delaware prisoner Wardell Leroy Giles filed suit in federal court against prison sergeant Gary Campbell and other defendants, alleging …
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