WALKER v. REED

No. 96-1283.

104 F.3d 156 (1997)

Lyndale WALKER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. M.D. REED, Warden, Cummins Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction; A.J. Hall, Major, Cummins Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction; John Does, unknown prison employees, Cummins Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided January 3, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lyndale Walker, pro se.

Janet Arnold, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, AR, for defendants.

Before BOWMAN, LOKEN, and MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judges.


BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.

Lyndale Walker, a state prisoner in Arkansas, appeals from the decision of the District Court1 dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1994) complaint as frivolous pursuant 28 U.S.C. § 1915(d) (1994).2 We review a § 1915(d) dismissal for abuse of discretion. See Denton v. Hernandez, 504 U.S. 25, 33, 112 S.Ct. 1728, 1733, 118 L.Ed.2d 340 ...

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