William Cannon, Jr. v. Odie Washington, Director, Ronald Haws, Rodney L. Tally

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 2005-08-10

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PER CURIAM. This protracted litigation arises out of three incidents that allegedly occurred in 1996 and 1998 in which Illinois inmate William Cannon, Jr., claims that prison guards severely beat him. Cannon originally filed suit in 1998 and amended his complaint in 2001, alleging in total that more than 50 defendants violated his rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments…

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