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· 8/3/1972

Larry Bracey, Jr. v. Captain Herringa and Sergeant Gade

Citations

  • 466 F.2d 702
  • 1972 U.S. App. LEXIS 8073

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that business records exception did not apply to prison records, including guards’ “conduct reports,” that “included the self-serving statements of the defendants” and other guards potentially subject to liability
  • reversing grant of summary judgment against § 1983 claim concerning 6 prisoner beating, because court erred in considering prison report, which was inadmissible 7 hearsay
  • correction officers’ reports of prisoner beatings do not fit Rule 803(6) exception

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Judges: Clark, Sprecher, Campbell

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