WHITFIELD v. HOWARD

No. 15-2649.

852 F.3d 656 (2017)

Benyehudah WHITFIELD II, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Erika R. HOWARD, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 28, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

BenYeHudah Whitfield, II, Pro Se.

Christopher M.R. Turner , Attorney, Office of the Attorney General, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Kenneth Chesebro , Attorney, Cambridge, MA, Colin H. Dunn , Attorney, Clifford Law Offices, P.C., Chicago, IL, for Amici Curiae.

Before Wood, Chief Judge, and Bauer and Manion, Circuit Judges.


Benyehudah Whitfield spent nearly 17 years in the custody of the Illinois Department of Corrections. He contends that he would have been released earlier had it not been for the retaliatory revocation of good-time credits; he lost those credits in three prison disciplinary proceedings. Whitfield filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit...

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