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PRESSLY v. GREGORY

Nos. 86-7412, 86-7413.

831 F.2d 514 (1987)

Francis Hunter PRESSLY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. H.H. GREGORY; S. Hedgepeth; James P. Rogers, SLED (S. Carolina); Unknown SLED Agent; C.E. Parrish, Deputy Sheriff; T.G. Royster, Deputy Sheriff; J.E. Keeton, Deputy Sheriff; T.E. Wilkinson, Deputy Sheriff, Defendants-Appellees. Francis Hunter PRESSLY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. James P. ROGERS, SLED (S. Carolina); Unknown SLED Agent, Defendants-Appellants, and H.H. Gregory; S. Hedgepeth; C.E. Parrish, Deputy Sheriff; T.G. Royster, Deputy Sheriff; J.E. Keeton, Deputy Sheriff; T.E. Wilkinson, Deputy Sheriff, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 21, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ward L. Thomas, Third Year Law Student (Professor Stephen A. Saltzburg, Supervising Atty., University of Virginia School of Law; Jessica A. Ginsburg, Third Year Law Student on brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

Gerard P. Rowe (Williams, Worrell, Kelly & Greer, P.C. on brief); Linwood T. Wells, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen.; (James W. Hopper; Gardner, Moss and Harper, on brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before RUSSELL, WIDENER, and HALL, Circuit Judges.

K.K. HALL, Circuit Judge:

Francis Hunter Pressly, a South Carolina inmate, brought a civil action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against two Virginia state magistrates and six law enforcement officers from Virginia and South Carolina. Pressly alleged that his involuntary transfer from a Virginia prison to a South Carolina penal institution violated his constitutional right to due process and was accomplished with recourse to constitutionally excessive force. In...

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