MURRELL v. BENNETT

No. 79-2025.

615 F.2d 306 (1980)

Ralph MURRELL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Larry D. BENNETT, Commissioner of Alabama Board of Corrections et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 10, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard H. Gill, Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiff-appellant.

Mary Jane LeCroy, Jean W. Brown, Asst. Attys. Gen., Montgomery, Ala., for defendants-appellees.

Before GEE, FAY and VANCE, Circuit Judges.


FAY, Circuit Judge:

Ralph Murrell, an inmate of the Alabama State prisons, appeals the district court's grant of summary judgment to the State Board of Corrections and other defendants on his complaint that he was deprived of his civil rights in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1976). On review of the record, we find that summary judgment was unseasonably granted in this case. We therefore reverse.

Murrell is serving a life sentence for murder at Alabama...

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