BROOKS v. COUSINS

No. 74-2278.

527 F.2d 472 (1975)

Wayne BROOKS, alias Lawrence Brooks, Appellant, v. Gene COUSINS, Individually and in his official capacity as Superintendent of the Cleveland County Subsidiary # 4635 of the N. C. Department of Correction, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided November 10, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wayne Brooks, pro se.

Jacob L. Safron, Asst. Atty. Gen. of North Carolina, for appellee.

Before RUSSELL, FIELD and WIDENER, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

On March 18, 1974, one inmate at a medium security prison in North Carolina stabbed another inmate. Wayne Brooks was charged as the assailant. Thereafter, he was transferred to another prison, and ultimately to the North Carolina Central Prison, a maximum security institute. It was not until April 25 that he received a hearing before the state's Central Classification Board.

Based on these events, Brooks brought a civil rights suit claiming that...

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