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NIX v. UNITED STATES

No. 76-1898.

572 F.2d 998 (1978)

Daniel NIX, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided February 28, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clay G. Guthridge, Third Year Law Student (Allan R. Holmes, Columbia, S. C., Legal Aid Service Agency, on brief), for appellant.

Thomas G. Wilson, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Rex E. Lee, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., Mark W. Buyck, Jr., U. S. Atty., Columbia, S. C., Morton Hollander and Leonard Schaitman, Attys., Appellate Section, Civil Division, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on brief), for appellee.

Before CRAVEN and WIDENER, Circuit Judges, and COPENHAVER, District Judge.

COPENHAVER, District Judge:

In April 1974, appellant Nix was incarcerated at the South Carolina Central Correctional Institution of Columbia. Nix alleges he was gassed and beaten by several of the institution's guards without provocation on his part. As a consequence of that incident, two letters written by four of Nix's fellow inmates were received by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), complaining of the ill treatment...

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