Legal Opinion
Edward Lemons v. Captain Marvin Skidmore, Lieutenant Jack Durham, and Correctional Officer Robert Gaither
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 9, 1993No. 90-2679PublishedCited by 90 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILL, Senior District Judge.
Edward Lemons was a prisoner in the Segregation Unit at the Pontiac Correctional Center in 1986 (he is currently incarcerated elsewhere). He filed a § 1983 complaint pro se in June 1986 charging that in January 1986 the defendants had attacked and beaten him so severely that they violated his Eighth Amendment rights. The events took place during a shakedown, in which prisoners are handcuffed and removed from their cells while their cells are searched for contraband. Lemons testified that he thought it was not a real shakedown, but that they were telling him that to…
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