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WRIGHT v. McMANN

No. 167, Docket 31023.

387 F.2d 519 (1967)

Lawrence William WRIGHT, Appellant, v. Daniel McMANN, as Warden of Clinton State Prison, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided December 19, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence William Wright, appellant, pro se.

Betty D. Friedlander, Waverly, N. Y., for appellant.

John G. Proudfit, Asst. Atty. Gen., of New York (Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., of New York, Samuel A. Hirshowitz, First Asst. Atty. Gen.), for appellee.

Before LUMBARD, Chief Judge, KAUFMAN and FEINBERG, Circuit Judges.

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

We are called upon to decide whether allegations contained in a complaint filed by a inmate in a state prison, if true, evidence treatment constituting "cruel and unusual punishment" in violation of the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

Lawrence William Wright, an inmate of Clinton State Prison at Dannemora, New York,1 appeals...

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