Charles Mendoza v. Harold G. Miller, Warden

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 1985-12-19

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COFFEY, Circuit Judge. The petitioner, Charles Mendoza, appeals the denial of his petition for habeas corpus. We affirm. I. The following facts were presented in the respondent’s motion for summary judgment and are not in dispute. On March 14, 1984, Nathan Cowgér, an inmate of the United States Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois, was stabbed to death in his cell. The < cit…

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