Nelson Delgiudice, Jr. v. Jarvis Primus

Georgia prisoner Nelson DelGiudice, Jr. appeals pro se the district court’s dismissal of his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against Hancock State Prison employees Jarvis Pri-*946mus, Larry Milner and Patricia Evans, alleging violations of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. While almost all of DelGiudice’s claims were eventually dismissed for failure to state a claim pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6), one claim—an excessive force claim against Primus— went to trial. Three months before trial, when discovery issues arose, the district court appointed counsel for DelGiudice. At trial, the jury…