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Judge Cannot Make Credibility Findings
Loaded on June 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
June, 1993, page 11
Roland Pettengill is an Arkansas state prisoner. While in segregation he went to yard. Before entering the yard he alerted sergeant George Veasey that an enemy of his was in the yard. Veasey gave Pettengill the choice of going to yard with his enemy or refusing. Pettengill went to yard ...
Filed under:
Failure to Protect (General),
Civil Procedure,
Summary Judgment,
Evidentiary Ruling,
Juries.
Location:
Arkansas.
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