Ronald Del Raine v. Norman Carlson, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 1987-10-21

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POSNER, Circuit Judge. This extraordinary prisoner-rights case, now 14 years old and still in the pretrial stage with respect to major issues, exhibits the characteristic pathology of contemporary federal litigation, in which substantive and procedural complexity interact to create monumental confusion and delay. Ronald Del Raine ■ murdered two policemen…

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