Legal Opinion
Adams v. Morris
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided January 29, 2004No. 03-5413PublishedCited by 136 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
Vincent Darrell Adams, a Kentucky prisoner proceeding pro se, appeals a district court order dismissing his civil rights action filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. This case has been referred to a panel of the court pursuant to Rule 34(j)(l), Rules of the Sixth Circuit. Upon examination, this panel unanimously agrees that oral argument is not needed. Fed. RApp. P. 34(a).
At the time the complaint was filed, Adams was a pretrial detainee at the Jefferson County Corrections Department. In the complaint, Adams states that during a courtroom hearing, defendant Geoffrey P. Morris, a Jefferson…
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