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WHEELER v. SIMS

No. 90-1714.

951 F.2d 796 (1992)

Lorenzo WHEELER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Officer SIMS, Captain Staley and S. Jordan, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 8, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerold S. Solovy, Bradford P. Lyerla, Patricia A. Bronte (argued), Jenner & Block, Chicago, Ill., and Michael J. Tague, Flynn, Palmer, Tague & Lietz, Champaign, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

Tanya Solov (argued), Office of the Atty. Gen., Civ. Appeals Div., Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Before COFFEY and MANION, Circuit Judges, and WILL, Senior District Judge.

COFFEY, Circuit Judge.

On June 7, 1984, Lorenzo Wheeler, a Pontiac Corrections Center inmate, filed a pro se complaint pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The district court construed the complaint as alleging: 1) that the defendants Staley and Jordan violated Wheeler's due process rights in refusing to consider the written statement he presented at the Adjustment Committee hearing; and 2) that the defendants Sims and Dean violated his Eighth Amendment right...

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