Cokeley v. Endell

MAGILL, Circuit Judge.

Dickie Cokeley appeals the district court’s dismissal of his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action. We reverse and remand.

*332Cokeley filed a pro se section 1983 complaint alleging that various Arkansas Department of Correction officials violated Ms rights under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments. Specifically, Cokeley claimed he became a pretrial detainee when his 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas petition was granted on December 20, 1991. See Cokeley v. Lockhart, 951 F.2d 916, 917 (8th Cir.1991) (writ granted subject to state’s right to retry within a reasonable time), cert. denied, — U.S. —,…