Legal Opinion
Locicero v. O'CONNELL
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 6, 2006No. 04 Civ. 07708(VM)PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER
MARRERO, District Judge.
Pro se Plaintiff David Michael Locicero (“Locicero”) brought this action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the New York State Department of Correctional Services (“DOCS”), Downstate Correctional Facility (“Downstate”), Downstate Superintendent James O’Connell (“O’Connell”), and Downstate Correction Officer Featherston (“Featherston”) (collectively, the “Defendants”), alleging deprivations of his Eighth Amendment right to be free of cruel and unusual punishment. 1 Locicero’s claim emanates from an alleged unprovoked assault at the hands of…
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