Legal Opinion
Eduardo Navejar v. Akinola Iyiola
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 29, 2013No. 12-1182PublishedCited by 619 opinions
1Per curiam
Eduardo Navejar, an Illinois state prisoner, brawled with a prison guard. He swears that after guards subdued and handcuffed him, they kicked, stomped, and pepper-sprayed him twice, and then they denied him adequate medical care. The district court denied his motions to recruit counsel and later entered summary judgment for the guards on his claims that they violated the Eighth Amendment. On appeal Navejar argues that the court erred by refusing to recruit counsel for him. Because the court applied the wrong legal standard to Navejar’s motion, and the lack of counsel prejudiced him, we…
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