PERSECHINI v. CALLAWAY

No. 10-1867.

651 F.3d 802 (2011)

Michael Louis PERSECHINI, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. L. CALLAWAY; Sheriff Jerry Smith; Brian O'Connell; Virgil Landsdown; Patricia Cornell, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: August 10, 2011.

Rehearing Denied September 14, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sophie L. Fortin, Law Student, Washington U. School of Law, St. Louis, MO, argued ( D. Bruce La Pierre, Prof, of Law, Maria L. Barbu,   William A. Ciszewski,   Tobias J. Gillett,   Thomas A. Haine,   Arefa B. Patel,   Jenny Q. Shen,   Jacob A. Vanzin, Law Students, Washington U. School of Law, Brian C. Walsh, Bryan Cave, LLP, St. Louis, MO, on the brief), for appellant.

Cheryl Ann Schuetze, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, MO, argued ( Chris Koster, Atty. Gen., on the brief), for appellees.

Before RILEY, Chief Judge, LOKEN and COLLOTON, Circuit Judges.


LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

Michael Louis Persechini was convicted of second-degree burglary in a Missouri state court and sentenced to fifteen years in prison. With the prior approval of the Missouri Department of Corrections, the trial court also sentenced him as a chronic nonviolent offender with a serious drug addiction to the Department's long-term substance-abuse treatment program at the Ozark Correctional Center ("OCC"). Had he successfully completed this program...

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