Legal Opinion
Rodney Manyon Lane v. Ted Philbin
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 26, 2016No. 14-11140PublishedCited by 171 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JORDAN, Circuit Judge:
Rodney Manyon Lane, a Georgia state prisoner with a third-grade education, alleged in his pro se handwritten complaint that he was on his way to the dining hall at the Valdosta State Prison when he was savagely attacked by another inmate who had been threatening him. The other inmate stabbed Mr. Lane four times and hit him in the face with a lock. According to the complaint, the prisoner attacked Mr. Lane because he was not a gang member and not Muslim, yet was housed in a dormitory where gang members reigned, weapons were tolerated, and violence ran amuck. Mr. Lane said…
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