Legal Opinion
Patric Patterson v. Kennie Bolden
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 5, 2018No. 16-3891PublishedCited by 862 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GRUENDER, Circuit Judge.
Patric Patterson brought this pro se civil rights action seeking monetary damages for injuries sustained when he was attacked by a fellow inmate at an Arkansas prison. He now appeals the district court's 1 denial of appointed counsel and adverse grant of summary judgment on his failure-to-protect claims against various corrections officials. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.
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On March 15, 2014, Patterson was housed in Barracks 13, an "open barracks" at the Arkansas Department of Correction's ("ADC") Varner Unit. That afternoon, Patterson and fellow inmate Michael…
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