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WALKER v. LOCKHART

No. LR-C-81-280.

514 F.Supp. 1347 (1981)

James Dean WALKER, Plaintiff, v. A. L. LOCKHART, Superintendent of the Arkansas Department of Corrections; Richard Earl Griffin, Floyd Johnson, Thomas H. Wortham, Jim Lindsey and Woodson Walker, Members of the Arkansas Board of Correction; Sergeant David Rosegrant of the Arkansas State Police; Ronald Dobbs, Warden of Cummins Prison Diagnostic Unit; Frank White, Governor of the State of Arkansas; Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Governor of the State of California; State of Arkansas and State of California, Defendants. In the Matter of the Application of James Dean WALKER, Petitioner, for a Writ of Habeas Corpus to Inquire into the Cause of Detention of James Dean Walker v. Sergeant David ROSEGRANT of the Arkansas State Police; Ronald Dobbs, Warden of Cummins Prison Diagnostic Unit; and A. L. Lockhart, Superintendent of the Department of Correction, Respondents.

United States District Court, E. D. Arkansas, W. D.

June 2, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Oscar Fendler, Blytheville, Ark., Bill W. Bristow, Jonesboro, Ark., for plaintiff.

Steve Clark, Atty. Gen., of Ark., Theodore Holder, Frederick K. Campbell, A. Carter Hardage, Asst. Attys. Gen., Little Rock, Ark., for defendants.

ORDER

WOODS, District Judge.

Upon the plaintiff-petitioner's (hereinafter plaintiff) extradition from California to Arkansas, he filed a complaint alleging that the State of Arkansas was unable to provide him with a confinement and environment in the Arkansas penal institutions free from cruel and unusual punishment as required by the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Additionally, under Count I of the complaint, plaintiff alleged that...

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