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Evidentiary Hearing Cannot Replace Trial in Beating Suit

Clifton Johnson is an Arkansas state prisoner. He filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that prison guards had beat, kicked and stomped him without provocation when he requested his property in the prison segregation unit. A magistrate held an evidentiary hearing at which prison guards claimed Johnson had ...

 

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