Legal Opinion
Ross v. United States
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided July 25, 1986No. Civ. A. 86-0857, 86-0858PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
GASCH, Senior District Judge.
I. BACKGROUND
This case stems from the murders of two District of Columbia (“D.C.”) criminal offenders at the hands of other prisoners in two separate incidents at the United States Prison at Marion, Illinois (“USP-Marion”). The complaints state that prisoner James Anthony Rice died on September 11, 1985, after being beaten and stomped upon by a group of fellow inmates, and that prisoner James Robert Lorick died on June 5, 1985, after being stabbed by a fellow inmate. His attacker wielded a long knife fashioned from a ladle stolen from the prison kitchen…
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