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SLACK v. CARPENTER

No. 93-1336 Conference Calendar.

7 F.3d 418 (1993)

Reginald SLACK, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Don CARPENTER et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 29, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Reginald Slack, pro se.

William Van Thompson, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., Tarrant County Crim. Dist. Attorney's Office, Ft. Worth, TX, for defendants-appellees.

Before POLITZ, Chief Judge, and SMITH and WIENER, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

Reginald Slack, a prisoner of the State of Texas, filed a civil rights action alleging that Tarrant County Sheriff Don Carpenter and Deputies Elvin Taylor and Charles Pruitt used excessive force without provocation in violation of the Eighth Amendment. He appeals the judgment of the district court dismissing his second civil rights action as time-barred. Slack argues that the limitation period should be tolled because, after the dismissal of his first...

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