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VAUGHN v. WILLIS

Nos. 87-1698, 87-1762.

853 F.2d 1372 (1988)

Terry VAUGHN, Plaintiff-Appellee, Cross-Appellant, v. Henry WILLIS, Defendant-Appellant, Cross-Appellee, and Richard DeRobertis, Chief Administrative Officer (Warden), Stateville Correctional Center, Salvadore Godinez, Assistant Warden for Programs, Stateville Correctional Center, Michael O'Leary, Assistant Warden for Operations, Stateville Correctional Center, and Travis Wheaton, Cellhouse Superintendant, Stateville Correctional Center, Defendants, Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 22, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bret A. Rappaport, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellant, cross-appellee.

Gail A. Niemann, Jenner & Block, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee, cross-appellant.

Before CUMMINGS, CUDAHY and RIPPLE, Circuit Judges.

RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.

The defendant-appellant, Henry Willis, a guard at the Stateville Correctional Center (Stateville) in Joliet, Illinois, seeks review of a jury verdict in the amount of $125,000 for the plaintiff-appellee, Terry Vaughn, an inmate at Stateville. In April 1983, several other Stateville inmates brutally raped Mr. Vaughn. It was alleged that Mr. Willis affirmatively aided and abetted these prisoners in their...

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