Garzee v. Barkley

WALTERS, Chief Justice.

This action arose from a prison “scuffle” between an inmate and a correctional officer. The issue presented on appeal is whether the district court properly dismissed the inmate’s civil rights claim on summary judgment. For the reasons stated below, we affirm.

Facts

Gary Dean Garzee is an inmate at the Idaho State Correctional Institution, in Ada County, Idaho. Although Garzee was housed in unit eight—the highest security unit in the institution—he recently had been assigned a less restrictive custody status within that unit. On the date of the incident giving rise to…