Smith v. Barry

OPINION

SMITH, District Judge:

Plaintiff-appellant William Smith prosecutes this appeal from two adverse orders of the district court. As to defendant-ap-pellee Barry, we find that Smith failed to perfect his appeal. Accordingly, we dismiss the appeal as to Dr. Barry. As to defendants-appellees Victor, Turner, Hall, Brown, Jackson, and Wilkins (“the six prison guards”), we find that Smith did perfect his appeal, but affirm the district court’s direction of a verdict and entry of judgment in their favor on Smith’s deliberate indifference claim.1

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William Smith suffers from a painful psychogenic…