MILLER v. NORRIS

No. 00-1053.

247 F.3d 736 (2001)

James MILLER, Appellant, v. Larry NORRIS, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction; Marvin Evans, Warden, Brickeys Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction; M. Williams, Shift Captain, Brickeys Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction; Billy Taylor, Lt., Brickeys Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction; Shernell Wade, Guard, Brickeys Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction; Lanell Jefferson, Guard, Brickeys Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: April 12, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Lessmeister, argued, Little Rock, AR, for appellant.

Kimberly A. Witherspoon, Asst. Atty. Gen., argued, Little Rock, AR, for appellee.

Before BEAM and MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judges, and ALSOP, District Judge.


MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

In January, 1996, while James Miller was incarcerated in the Arkansas Department of Correction (ADC), he was stabbed by another inmate. He thereafter completed his state prison term and was incarcerated in federal prison for another crime. While in federal prison, Mr. Miller, acting pro se, filed a civil rights action, see 42 U.S.C. § 1983, against six ADC employees alleging, inter alia, that at the...

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