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RYAN v. HAYES

1001578, 1001630 and 1001631.

831 So.2d 21 (2002)

Sue RYAN and Willard Ryan v. Jim HAYES et al. Karl Franklin Smith, individually and as next friend of William Frank Smith III, a minor v. Jim Hayes et al. Michael Peden and Harold Peden v. Jim Hayes et al.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

March 22, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randall S. Haynes and Larry W. Morris of Morris, Haynes & Hornsby, Alexander City, for appellants Sue Ryan and Willard Ryan.

Nat Bryan and Thomas M. Powell of Marsh, Rickard & Bryan, P.C., Birmingham, for appellants Karl Franklin Smith, Michael Peden, and Harold Peden.

Winston V. Legge, Jr., of Patton, Latham, Legge & Cole, Athens, for appellee Jim Hayes.

Andrew W. Redd, asst. atty. gen., and general counsel; and William F. Addison, asst. atty. gen., and asst. general counsel, Department of Corrections, for appellees Ralph Hooks and David Wise.

Barnes F. Lovelace, Jr., of Harris, Caddell & Shanks, P.C., Decatur, for appellee Jim Yarbrough.

John Percy Oliver II of Oliver & Sims, Dadeville, for amici curiae Alabama Coalition Against Rape (ACAR) and Victims of Crime and Leniency (VOCAL).

HARWOOD, Justice.

The three above-captioned cases, consolidated on appeal, were brought in the Circuit Court of Limestone County by the victims of a post-escape rampage by Scourterrious Lofton ("Lofton"), an inmate at the Limestone Correctional Facility ("Limestone"), located in Capshaw, who, along with another inmate, escaped from a disciplinary chain gang on June 25, 1997. The defendants in these actions were Jim Hayes, the classification-specialist supervisor at...

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