Legal Opinion
David Gevas v. Christopher McLaughlin
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 20, 2015No. 13-1057PublishedCited by 338 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
While David Gevas was imprisoned at the Henry Hill Correctional Center in Galesburg, Illinois, his cellmate stabbed him in the neck with a pen. Gevas filed a pro se complaint against three prison officials, alleging inter alia that they violated the Eighth Amendment’s proscription against cruel and unusual punishment by failing to protect him from the attack. See U.S. CONST, amend. VIII, cl. 3; 42 U.S.C. § 1983. 1 That claim proceeded to a jury trial, at which Gevas was represented by appointed counsel. At the conclusion of Gevas’s case in chief, however, the district…
2Cases cited46 opinions
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- Jackie Vance v. Howard Peters, Iii, Director, Jane E. Higgins, Warden, and James Roy, Correctional OfficerCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1996
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