Legal Opinion
Rodger Thornton v. Gregory Brown, Jimmie Mifflin, Jr., and Michael Kelly
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 3, 1995No. 94-1258PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ESCHBACH, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff Rodger Thornton appeals from an adverse judgment entered by the district court in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against three officers of the Illinois Department of Corrections for allegedly violating his rights, under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, to be free from cruel and unusual punishment. Thornton contends that the magistrate judge made several key factual findings which were clearly erroneous. We affirm.
I
Although the two parties provided conflicting trial testimony, the following background facts are undisputed. On September 26, 1989, while…
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