Legal Opinion
Livell Figgs v. Alex Dawson
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 25, 2016No. 15-2926PublishedCited by 161 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALONSO, District-Judge.
Plaintiff, Livell Figgs, was convicted of murder and sentenced to 40 years’ imprisonment in the Illinois Department of Corrections (“IDOC”). He served the latter part of his sentence at Logan Correctional Center and was released on June 28, 2012 after having survived summary judgment in his state-court mandamus proceeding in which he alleged that his release date had been miscalculated. Figgs then brought this § 1983 action against prison officials at Logan, alleging, among other things, that they had been deliberately indifferent to the possibility that he was being…
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