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SCOTT v. DeJARNETTE

No. PB-75-C-158.

470 F.Supp. 766 (1979)

Bobby Dan SCOTT v. Bob DeJARNETTE, Correction Officer, Cummins Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction.

United States District Court, E. D. Arkansas, Pine Bluff Division.

May 31, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert D. Smith, III, Little Rock, Ark., for petitioner.

Joyce W. Warren, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Arkansas, Little Rock, Ark., for respondent.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

ROY, District Judge.

In this action, predicated on 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the plaintiff, Bobby Dan Scott, alleged that on May 26, 1975, while he was a prisoner at the Cummins Unit of the Arkansas Department of Corrections, he was verbally and physically abused by the defendant Bob DeJarnette, a security officer at the prison, in violation of his Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment. He also alleged that he...

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