Howard v. King

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · Decided 1983-06-16

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PER CURIAM: Clinton Howard, Michael Chapman, and Kenneth Robinson, inmates of the Louisiana Department of Corrections at Angola, Louisiana, filed a civil rights suit in federal district court alleging violations of their eighth amendment right to be free of cruel and unusual punishment. The complaint alleged, in pertinent part: For sometime now the two defendants herein, Warden Ross Maggio, and t…

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