Legal Opinion
Teague v. Mayo
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 27, 2009No. 07-1155PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EVANS, Circuit Judge.
Seventy-two-year-old John Teague is serving a 75-year sentence in the Illinois prison system. The length of the sentence is a result, tragically enough, of his raping the warden’s daughter while he was already serving a rape sentence. See People v. Teague, 32 Ill.App.3d 76, 335 N.E.2d 594 (1975). He filed this case under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging mistreatment by two corrections officers at Illinois’ Menard Correctional Institution. The judge granted summary judgment against him on his claim for deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs and a jury found against…
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