Legal Opinion
O'Malley, Robert C. v. Litscher, Jon E.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 16, 2006No. 05-3415PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Per curiam
In the spring of 2002, Wisconsin inmate Robert O’Malley embarked on what he characterizes as a religious fast. Though he continued to drink water, he stopped eating altogether because, he says, he was using the “power of prayer and fasting” to implore God to move his former accusers to recant the testimony that led to his conviction and imprisonment for sexual assault. We are skeptical that his refusal to eat really was a religious exercise; O’Mal-ley boasted to prison staff that this “fast,” like two others before it, would win him a transfer to a different prison, and he admitted in his…
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