Lassiter v. Fleming

Plaintiff William Lassiter appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York after a non-jury trial before Jack B. Weinstein, /., dismissing his claim for damages under the Civil Rights Act of 1871, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, against defendants Raymond Fleming and Willis A. Weaver. Defendants were Correction Officers in the Queens House of Detention on October 24, 1970, when, according to plaintiff, they brutally assaulted him. At the trial before Judge Weinstein, at which 11 witnesses testified, two completely different versions of the facts emerged.…