Legal Opinion
Junior Ray Duckworth, Cross-Appellants v. Gayle Franzen, Cross-Appellees
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 5, 1986No. 85-1010, 85-1053, 85-1084 and 85-1095PublishedCited by 449 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
In November 1979 a bus used to transport prisoners between Illinois prisons caught fire from unknown causes. When the fire broke out, the 35 prisoners in the bus were in handcuffs, with all the prisoners on each side of the aisle being joined together by a chain running through the handcuffs. For reasons of security all exits but the front door of the bus had been sealed and there was a metal screen (like a mesh fence), probably locked (but the record is not clear on this), between the passenger .area and the front door. When the bus filled with dense smoke each group of…
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