DORSEY v. ST. JOSEPH COUNTY JAIL OFFICIALS

No. 96-1407.

98 F.3d 1527 (1996)

Reginold J. DORSEY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ST. JOSEPH COUNTY JAIL OFFICIALS a/k/a St. Joseph County, Joseph F. Nagy, David Stafford, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 28, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dave Welter, Jeffrey Terrill (argued), Valparaiso University Law Clinic, Valparaiso, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Larry Ambler (argued), Allen, Fedder, Herendeen & Kowals, South Bend, IN, for Defendants-Appellees.

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


RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.

Reginold J. Dorsey, while a pre-trial detainee at the St. Joseph County Jail in Indiana, was injured when four guards, defendants Deputy David Stafford, Deputy Robert Thompson, Captain Paul P. Moffa and Sergeant Greg Delinski, allegedly used excessive force while transferring Mr. Dorsey from one cell to another.1 Mr. Dorsey filed this civil rights action. See 42 U...

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