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McDONALD v. STATE OF ILLINOIS

No. 76-1265.

557 F.2d 596 (1977)

Wilbur McDONALD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. STATE OF ILLINOIS, City of Chicago, County of Cook, Edward V. Hanrahan, Bernard M. Carey, Joseph Woods, Richard Elrod, Department of Corrections of Cook County, Daniel Weil, James Rochford, James Conlisk, and William Arnos and Gerald Saternos, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 15, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick F. Cohn, Chicago, Ill., John A. Dienner, III, Asst. State's Atty., Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

William R. Quinlan, Corp. Counsel, Edmund Hatfield, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Chicago, Ill., William J. Scott, Atty. Gen., Raymond J. McKoski, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Before CLARK, Associate Justice (Retired), FAIRCHILD, Chief Judge, and HASTINGS, Senior Circuit Judge.

FAIRCHILD, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff, Wilbur McDonald, brought this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Fourteenth Amendment against the State of Illinois, Cook County, the City of Chicago, the Cook County Department of Corrections and various county and city officials. Jurisdiction was claimed under 28 U.S.C. § 1331 as well as § 1343. Plaintiff claims that defendants arrested, convicted and...

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