Legal Opinion
Leonard DeWitt v. Corizon, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 25, 2014No. 13-2930PublishedCited by 126 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.
Leonard Dewitt, a 51-year-old former inmate at the Indianapolis Re-Entry Educational Facility, challenges the grant of summary judgment against him in his dé-liberate indifference suit and also appeals the district court’s denial of his three motions to recruit counsel. Because we find that the district court abused its discretion in denying the motions for recruitment of counsel, and those denials affected Dewitt’s ability to develop and litigate his case, we will not reach the merits of the summary judgment order. Therefore, we' reverse and remand so that the court…
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