Legal Opinion
Lawrence William Wright v. Daniel McMann as Warden of Clinton State Prison
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 19, 1967No. 31023_1PublishedCited by 307 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:
We are called upon to decide whether allegations contained in a complaint filed by a inmate in a state prison, if true, evidence treatment constituting “cruel *521and unusual punishment” in violation of the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.
Lawrence William Wright, an inmate of Clinton State Prison at Dannemora, New York,1 appeals from a dismissal of his complaint without a hearing by the District Court for the Northern District of New York, Brennan, J., 257 F.Supp. 739 (N.D.N.Y.1966). The complaint, brought under the Civil Rights Act2 and…
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3Cited by307 opinions
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