UNITED STATES v. BRUSCINO

Nos. 80-2336, 80-2337.

662 F.2d 450 (1981)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Ronnie Joseph BRUSCINO and Charles Eugene Kell, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 20, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary M. Runnells, Bloomfield, Ind., Robert F. Hellman, Jessie A. Cook, Terre Haute, Ind., for defendants-appellants.

Lloyd Bryce Monroe, Asst. U. S. Atty., Virginia Dill McCarty, U. S. Atty., Indianapolis, Ind., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before CUDAHY, Circuit Judge, and GIBSON and FAIRCHILD, Senior Circuit Judges.


FAIRCHILD, Senior Circuit Judge.

On October 30, 1978, Robert Martinez, an inmate at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, died as a result of head injuries inflicted by blunt force approximately an hour before his death. Shortly after Martinez was discovered, defendant-appellant Ronnie Bruscino, a fellow inmate at Terre Haute, was apprehended on suspicion of the murder and placed in segregation. Defendant-appellant Charles Kell, also an inmate at Terre...

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