Legal Opinion
Willie Burton, Jr. v. A. Livingston
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided May 8, 1986No. 85-1941PublishedCited by 189 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.
Willie Burton, Jr., an inmate at the Tucker Maximum Security Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction, appeals from the dismissal of his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint against Sgt. A. Livingston, a guard at the Cummins Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction.
Mr. Burton alleged in his complaint that on 12 June 1984 he was in attendance at the federal courthouse in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, for a hearing on a complaint against guards at the Cummins Unit. He was accompanied to that hearing by Mr. Livingston and at least one other guard. Mr. Burton’s handwritten pro se…
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