Legal Opinion
Mathie v. Fries
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 31, 1997No. 1274, Docket 96-9138PublishedCited by 170 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.
This appeal primarily concerns the proper amount of compensatory and punitive damages that should be awarded to a prisoner in a section 1983 suit in which the prisoner alleged that he was sexually assaulted by a prison official. Roy Fries, an officer at the Suffolk County Correctional Facility (“SCCF”), appeals from the August 8, 1996, judgment of the District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Arthur D. Spatt, Judge), awarding Maurice J. Mathie, formerly an SCCF inmate, $250,000 in compensatory damages and $500,000 in punitive damages, following a bench…
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