DURAN v. LAMM

No. 81CA0215.

644 P.2d 66 (1981)

Michael S. DURAN and Daniel G. Trujillo, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Richard D. LAMM, Governor of the State of Colorado, Allen L. Ault, Executive Director of the Department of Corrections of the State of Colorado, and William Wilson, Superintendent of the Maximum Security Unit of the Colorado State Prison, Defendants-Appellants.

Colorado Court of Appeals, Div. II.

Rehearing Denied December 24, 1981.

Certiorari Denied April 12, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kelly, Haglund, Garnsey & Kahn, Edwin S. Kahn, Holme, Roberts & Owen, Brent Manning, Denver, for plaintiffs-appellees.

J. D. MacFarlane, Atty. Gen., Richard F. Hennessey, Deputy Atty. Gen., Mary J. Mullarkey, Sol. Gen., J. Stephen Phillips, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for defendants-appellants.


VAN CISE, Judge.

This civil rights suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 was instituted by plaintiffs, Duran and Trujillo, prisoners serving long-term sentences in the maximum security facility at the Colorado State Penitentiary. Plaintiffs sought declaratory and injunctive relief from conditions of confinement at the penitentiary which allegedly violated their constitutional and statutory rights. After numerous motions were prepared, briefed, and argued, and after extensive...

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