Legal Opinion
Pruitt v. Mote
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 3, 2007No. 05-1620PublishedCited by 2,780 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
Benjamin Pruitt, an inmate at the Pontiac Correctional Center in Illinois, filed a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging he was sexually assaulted by a prison guard and that prison employees failed to protect him from this assault. Prior to trial Pruitt filed four motions asking the district court to appoint an attorney to represent him. With the last two motions, Pruitt submitted the results of prison tests showing he had the educational level of an early sixth grader (his composite math and reading scores put him at grade level 6.2). The court denied each of these…
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