Bauer v. Henman

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

STIEHL, District Judge:

Before the Court is a Report and Recommendation of United States Magistrate Philip M. Frazier that respondent’s motion to dismiss be granted and petitioner’s request for appointment of counsel be denied. Petitioner has filed objections to the magistrate’s report; therefore, the Court will make a de novo review of those portions of the record to which objections were made, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. sec. 636(b)(1).

On December 20, 1984, William Finley, an inmate at the United States Correctional Institution in Sandstone, Minnesota was stabbed to death in…