Legal Opinion
Magluta v. Samples
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided December 10, 1998No. 97-8417PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Per curiam
Magluta appeals the district court’s dismissal of his Bivens action under the fugitive disentitlement doctrine. Because we find no nexus between Magluta’s fugitive status and his civil action, we conclude that the district court abused its discretion in dismissing Ma-gluta’s complaint on that basis.
I. Factual and Procedural History
In April 1991, a grand jury in the Southern District of Florida indicted Salvador Magluta on twenty-four drug trafficking and conspiracy charges. Magluta was arrested in October 1991. In 1994, while being held in the U.S. Penitentiary at Atlanta pending trial on…
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