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SUGGS v. LaVALLEE

No. 137, Docket 77-2053.

570 F.2d 1092 (1978)

John SUGGS, Appellee, v. J. Edwin LaVALLEE, Superintendent, Clinton State Correctional Institution, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 27, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry J. Steinglass, Asst. Dist. Atty., New York County, New York City (Robert M. Morgenthau, Dist. Atty., New York County, Peter L. Zimroth, Asst. Dist. Atty., New York City, of counsel), for appellant.

Judson A. Parson, Jr., New York City (Christopher B. Kende, New York City, of counsel), for appellee.

Before KAUFMAN, Chief Judge, and OAKES and MESKILL, Circuit Judges.

OAKES, Circuit Judge:

This case presents an all too familiar pattern of breakdown — of societal, institutional, medical and legal failure adequately to cope with a person. Perhaps inability to solve an insoluble problem is a better description, since the intentions of those attempting to cope — psychiatrists, psychologists, correction officers, judges and lawyers — have in no case been untoward.

The John Suggses of life begin with an utterly...

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