Wilder, No. 06-60711 In a to 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit against the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks and two of its employees, dismissal of claims against one defendant is affirmed where defendant was entitled to qualified immunity because his actions, in the form of pressuring and assisting plaintiff in committing a charged crime, even to the extent that they constituted entrapment under state law, did not by themselves constitute a violation of a… [read post]

AI Index: AMR 51/087/2007 When a capital defendant seeks to circumvent procedures necessary to ensure the propriety of his conviction and sentence, he does not ask the State to permit him to take his own life. [read post]