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LATAILLE v. PONTE

No. 84-1593.

754 F.2d 33 (1985)

Dale LATAILLE, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Joseph PONTE, etc., et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 6, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Bartenstein, Boston, Mass., with whom Doane F. Kiechel and Ropes & Gray, Boston, Mass., were on brief for plaintiff, appellant.

Francis G. Chase, Asst. Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., with whom Francis X. Bellotti, Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., was on brief for defendants, appellees.

Before CAMPBELL, Chief Judge, BOWNES and TORRUELLA, Circuit Judges.

BOWNES, Circuit Judge.

The case before us raises a single issue: whether the past disciplinary record of a prisoner was admissible in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit against corrections officers. We rule that it was not.

Appellant, Dale Lataille, brought suit against six corrections officers alleging that they had beaten him while he was housed in the Departmental Segregation Unit (DSU) at Massachusetts Correctional Institute at Walpole (MCI Walpole). Both...

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