COE v. BELL

No. Civ. 3:00-0246.

95 F.Supp.2d 795 (2000)

Robert Glen COE, Plaintiff, v. Ricky BELL, Warden, Defendant.

United States District Court, M.D. Tennessee, Nashville Division.

April 27, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Hutton, Glankler Brown, PLLC, Memphis, TN, for Robert Glen Coe, plaintiff.

Glenn Richard Pruden, Office of the Attorney General, Nashville, TN, for Ricky Bell, defendant.


AMENDED ORDER and MEMORANDUM

TRAUGER, District Judge.

On April 18, 2000, only hours before the execution of Robert Glen Coe, scheduled for 1:00 a.m. on April 19, 2000, Coe filed a petition to cite Warden Ricky Bell for contempt, on the ground that Bell was going to deny Coe access to his counsel during the insertion of the catheters that would carry the lethal drugs into his body. Coe maintained that this was a crucial period of time when he might...

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