Legal Opinion
Flynn v. Dyzwilewski
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided September 19, 1986No. 85 C 8618PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
MORAN, District Judge.
Plaintiff Harry Flynn was at one time an informer for the FBI. While in Cook County Jail in 1981, he apparently got wind of a plot by a fellow prisoner to have one of that prisoner’s victims murdered in order to prevent the victim from testifying.' He fed information on the plot to the FBI through defendant Daniel Dyzwilewski, an FBI agent. Later, however, Flynn feared that his role as an informer had been discovered. Since the prisoner about whom Flynn was passing information was a member of a gang well represented among those incarcerated in the…
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