SPEARMAN v. HARRIS

No. 88-CA-855.

542 So.2d 606 (1989)

Riley Alex SPEARMAN, Jr. v. Benny G. HARRIS and the State of Louisiana Through the State Department of Corrections and the Louisiana Training Institute.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

April 12, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Erwin Kopsa, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chief, Corrections Section, Louisiana Dept. of Justice, Baton Rouge, for defendants/appellees.

Pete Lewis, New Orleans, for plaintiff/appellant.

Before KLIEBERT, DUFRESNE, and WICKER, JJ.


WICKER, Judge.

Riley Alex Spearman, Jr. appeals the dismissal of his claims of malicious prosecution and false imprisonment against the Louisiana Training Institute and its superintendent, Benny G. Harris. We affirm.

Spearman was employed as a painter at L.T.I. in Bridge City, Louisiana from about 1972 until 1978. During 1977 meat was stolen from this correctional facility, and suspicion focused on several employees and inmates as a result of statements of...

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