HAWKINS v. HALL

No. 80-1257.

644 F.2d 914 (1981)

Charles R. HAWKINS, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Frank A. HALL et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 25, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gordon A. Martin, Jr., Boston, Mass., with whom James D. Hanrahan and Martin, Morse, Wylie & Kaplan, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for plaintiff-appellant.

Lee Carl Bromberg, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., with whom Francis X. Bellotti, Atty. Gen. and Bromberg, Sunstein & McGregor, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for defendants-appellees.

Before MARKEY, Judge, CAMPBELL and BOWNES, Circuit Judges.


BOWNES, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant Charles R. Hawkins, Jr., filed a complaint in the district court charging that his civil rights had been violated while an inmate at the Massachusetts Correctional Institute — Concord. He alleged that on February 18, 1976, three days after a riot at Concord, he was verbally provoked and physically abused in the corridor of an inmate dormitory, beaten by several correction officers while being dragged across the prison...

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