HEIDELBERG v. HAMMER

No. 75-2051.

577 F.2d 429 (1978)

Cleve HEIDELBERG, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Lawrence HAMMER, Larry Gray, Robert Lee Watson, William Hill and Paul J. Hibser, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 8, 1978.

Rehearing Denied July 18, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Lujan, Law Student, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind., for Prof. Crutchfield.

Brian M. Nemenoff, and Jack B. Teplitz, Peoria, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Before SWYGERT, TONE and BAUER, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing In Banc Denied July 18, 1978.

TONE, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff brings this pro se action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against numerous policemen and prosecutors involved in his arrest and conviction for murder by an Illinois court in 1970. His incarceration in a state prison under a sentence of 99 to 199 years gives rise to the principal issues presented on this appeal, which relate to the rights of an incarcerated felon in prosecuting...

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