Legal Opinion
Arzel Haley v. Boniface Gross, Lieutenant McKee and Michael Ellis
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 29, 1996No. 95-1130PublishedCited by 233 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
On May 16,1994, a jury found that Superintendent Boniface Gross, Lieutenant Scott McKee, and Sergeant Michael Ellis 1 (“defendants”) were deliberately indifferent to the safety of Arzel Haley while he was an inmate at the Menard Correctional Facility, in violation of the Eighth Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The jury found that the deliberate indifference of these defendants was a proximate cause of Haley’s injuries, which were sustained when another inmate set their joint cell on fire, severely burning Haley and killing himself. The jury found the defendants jointly and…
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