Legal Opinion
Dale Lataille v. Joseph Ponte, Etc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 6, 1985No. 84-1593PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWNES, Circuit Judge.
The case before us raises a single issue: whether the past disciplinary record of a prisoner was admissible in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit against corrections officers. We rule that it was not.
Appellant, Dale Lataille, brought suit against six corrections officers alleging that they had beaten him while he was housed in the Departmental Segregation Unit (DSU) at Massachusetts Correctional Institute at Walpole (MCI Walpole). Both Lataille and the corrections officers testified at the ensuing trial. Lataille testified that on his first morning in DSU, while he was…
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