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WHITSON v. BAKER

No. 82-7186.

755 F.2d 1406 (1985)

Larry Wayne WHITSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Charles BAKER and Troy Howton, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

March 22, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dominick, Fletcher, Yeilding, Acker, Wood & Lloyd, John Terrell McElheny, Birmingham, Ala., for defendants-appellees.

Before RONEY, VANCE and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

This is a prisoner's § 1983 suit. On remand with instructions from this Court, Judge U.W. Clemon held that the applicable one-year statute barred the suit, and that the Alabama tolling statute does not apply to a pretrial detainee, but only applied to persons convicted and sentenced for a term less than life. The prisoner/plaintiff here was a pretrial detainee when the alleged violation of his civil rights...

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