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GORDON v. WATLEY

No. 81 Civ. 5677 (MEL).

601 F.Supp. 1512 (1985)

Eddie Lee GORDON, Plaintiff, v. Officer WATLEY, Officer Witsell, Thomas Coughlin, III, Superintendent Harold J. Smith, Superintendent Wilson E.J. Walters, and John and/or Jane Does Nos. 1-20, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

February 7, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, New York City, for plaintiff; Mark G. Cunha, ESQ. Pamela L. Weisberg, New York City, of counsel.

Edward G. McCabe, County Atty. of Nassau County, Mineola, N.Y., for defendants Watley and Witsell; Peter B. Skelos, Deputy Co. Atty., Mineola, of counsel.

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of the State of N.Y., New York City, for defendants Coughlin, Smith and Walters; Stanley A. Camhi, Lillian Z. Cohen, Asst. Attys. Gen., New York City, of counsel.

LASKER, District Judge.

I

Plaintiff, Eddie Lee Gordon, sues under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging deprivation of his rights under the Fourth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and under the common law of New York.

On March 6, 1979 Gordon was sentenced in Grady County, Cairo, Georgia, to confinement for a term of ten years for burglary. Under the terms of the sentencing order, Gordon had to serve four years in prison and six years on probation. On...

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