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RICH v. BRUCE

No. 96-7619.

129 F.3d 336 (1997)

Gregory L. RICH, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Sergeant Michael BRUCE, Defendant-Appellant, and Sewall Smith, Warden; James Sanders; James Peguese; Lieutenant Grant; Teresa Wilson-Bogans, Corporal, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided November 13, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: David Phelps Kennedy, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellant. Paul R. Kramer, Paul Kramer, P.A., Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee.

Before WILKINSON, Chief Judge, and WILKINS and LUTTIG, Circuit Judges.

Reversed by published opinion. Judge LUTTIG wrote the opinion, in which Chief Judge WILKINSON and Judge WILKINS joined.

OPINION

LUTTIG, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff-appellee Gregory L. Rich filed this § 1983 action against defendant-appellant Michael Bruce, alleging that Bruce violated Rich's rights under the Eighth Amendment. After a bench trial, the district court found for Rich and entered judgment accordingly. For the reasons that follow, we...

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