Robert Lumbert v. Morgan M. Finley, Clerk of the Court

COFFEY, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff-appellant, Lumbert, appeals from a final judgment of the district court dismissing his pro se civil rights action against the defendant-appellee, Finley, the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. *

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In his complaint, Lumbert, an inmate at the Stateville Correctional Center, alleged that Circuit Court Clerk Finley, having been notified that Lumbert was representing himself on appeal of his conviction of murder, refused and continued to refuse to send him his trial transcript; that approximately eight months had passed since Finley had notified…