WHITFIELD v. SPILLER

No. 20-1747.

76 F.4th 698 (2023)

BenYehudah WHITFIELD, II, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Betsy SPILLER, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Re-Argued January 11, 2023.

Decided August 7, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hille R. Sheppard , Christopher D. Batdorf-Barnes , Rebecca M. Lewis , Attorneys, Sidley Austin LLP, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Bridget DiBattista , Alexandrina Shrove , Attorneys, Office of the Attorney General, Civil Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before Wood, Brennan, and Scudder, Circuit Judges.


BenYehudah Whitfield was scheduled for discharge from Menard Correctional Center on January 7, 2010, at which point he was to begin a term of mandatory supervised release. But things went badly off the tracks that day. The problems began when prison officials handed Whitfield only the signature page of a document called the...

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