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WILSON v. LAMBERT

No. 85-1379.

789 F.2d 656 (1986)

Jeffrey Thomas WILSON, Appellee, v. Lt. Clifton LAMBERT and Sgt. W.F. Straughn, Employees, Cummins Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided May 2, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randel Miller, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, Ark., for appellants.

Richard Quiggle, Little Rock, Ark., for appellee.

Before ARNOLD and WOLLMAN, Circuit Judges, and REGAN, Senior District Judge.

WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.

Jeffrey Thomas Wilson, formerly an inmate at the Cummins Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction, commenced this suit for damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against two of the Department's correctional officers, Clifton Lambert and W.F. Straughn, alleging that he had been beaten by them. An evidentiary hearing was held before a United States magistrate. After hearing the evidence the magistrate recommended to the district court

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