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WILLIAMS v. NEBRASKA STATE PENITENTIARY

No. 94-3416.

57 F.3d 667 (1995)

Jimmie L. WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. NEBRASKA STATE PENITENTIARY; Brad Exstrom, Unit Mgr., Housing Unit 4, NSP; Matt Heckman, Unit Mgr., Housing Unit 3, NSP; Lawrence Higgins, Unit Supervisor, II, Housing Unit 3, NSP; Dean Naylor, Major, Correctional Officer, Chief of Security, NSP; Lynn Wright, Captain, Correctional Officer, NSP, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided June 13, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence G. Whelan, Omaha, NE, for appellant.

Terri M. Weeks, Lincoln, NE, for appellee.

Before WOLLMAN and MURPHY, Circuit Judges, and EISELE, Senior District Judge.

WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is a civil rights case brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Jimmie L. Williams asserts that Nebraska prison officials violated his Eighth Amendment rights by disregarding the risk of harm posed by a hostile cellmate who eventually assaulted him. After a five-day jury trial, a verdict was returned for the prison officials. We affirm.

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On February 5, 1991, Williams, a long-time Nebraska State Penitentiary inmate whose...

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