BATES v. JEAN

No. 82-3089.

745 F.2d 1146 (1984)

Leon BATES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. J.W. JEAN, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 12, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allen E. Shoenberger, Scott Beckman, Law Student, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

John Vaudreuil, Asst. U.S. Atty., Madison, Wis., for defendants-appellees.

Before BAUER, CUDAHY and COFFEY, Circuit Judges.


COFFEY, Circuit Judge.

Pro se plaintiff, Leon Bates, brought this suit under the Fifth and Eighth Amendments against four federal correctional officers alleging that he was beaten by them before boarding a bus to take him from the Federal Correctional Institution at Oxford, Wisconsin, to the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. The jury, in answer to two special verdict questions, found that one of the defendants, James Jean, had intentionally...

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