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Del RAINE v. CARLSON

No. 86-1740.

826 F.2d 698 (1987)

Ronald Del RAINE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Norman CARLSON, individually and in his official capacity as Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 14, 1987.

Rehearing Denied October 21, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James T. McKeown, Foley & Lardner, Milwaukee, Wis., for plaintiff-appellant.

Richard H. Lloyd, Asst. U.S. Atty., Frederick J. Hess, U.S. Atty., St. Louis, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Before BAUER, Chief Judge, and POSNER and EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This extraordinary prisoner-rights case, now 14 years old and still in the pretrial stage with respect to major issues, exhibits the characteristic pathology of contemporary federal litigation, in which substantive and procedural complexity interact to create monumental confusion and delay.

Ronald Del Raine murdered two policemen in the course of a bank robbery and in 1968 was sentenced to 199 years in prison. In 1972, while in the federal...

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