PEARSON v. WELBORN

No. 05-1068, No. 05-1241.

471 F.3d 732 (2006)

ALEX PEARSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, Cross-Appellee v. GEORGE C. WELBORN, Warden and KRISTEN KWASNIEWSKI, Defendants-Appellees, Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 8, 2006.


ROVNER, Circuit Judge.

Convicted murderer Alex Pearson was just two days away from being transferred out of Tamms Correctional Center, a maximum-security prison in southern Illinois, when he received a disciplinary ticket for sexual misconduct. That ticket set his transfer from Tamms to a less restrictive prison back by more than a year. Alleging that the ticket was trumped-up to block his transfer from Tamms, Pearson sued Charles Hinsley, who was then a warden at...

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