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Wilson Vs. Seiter

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 17, 1991

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  1. Bell Vs. Wolfish US Supreme Court · May 14, 1979
  2. Estelle Vs. Gamble US Supreme Court · Nov 30, 1976
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  3. Whitley Vs. Albers US Supreme Court · Mar 04, 1986
  4. Rhodes Vs. Chapman US Supreme Court · Jun 15, 1981
  5. Graham Vs. Connor US Supreme Court · May 15, 1989
  6. Dudley Vs. Stubbs US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1989
  7. Hutto Vs. Finney US Supreme Court · Jun 23, 1978
  8. Trop Vs. Dulles US Supreme Court · Mar 31, 1958
  9. U.S. 294 (1991) U.S. Supreme Court Wilson v. Seiter
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  10. U.S. 294 (1991) Wilson v. Seiter
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  11. violate the Eighth Amendment must show a culpable state of mind on the part of prison officials. See, e.g., Whitley v. Albers
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  12. U. S. 312 , 475 U. S. 319 . Rhodes v. Chapman
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  13. standard applied in Estelle v. Gamble
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  14. applies to the States through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, Page 501 U. S. 297 Robinson v. California
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  15. on those convicted of crimes. In Estelle v. Gamble
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  16. implicates the Eighth Amendment, id. at 429 U. S. 104 (quoting Gregg v. Georgia
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  17. culpable state of mind. Estelle relied in large measure on an earlier case, Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber
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  18. After Estelle, we next confronted an Eighth Amendment challenge to a prison deprivation in Rhodes v. Chapman
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  19. That Rhodes had not eliminated the subjective component was made clear by our next relevant case, Whitley v. Albers
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  20. Graham v. Connor
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  21. Duckworth v. Franzen
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  22. F.2d 645, 652 (CA7 1985), cert. denied, 479 U.S. 816 (1986). See also Johnson v. Glick
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  23. John v. Johnson
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  24. U.S. 1033 (1973). Cf. Block v. Rutherford
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  25. of a cruel prison condition may make it easier to establish knowledge, and hence some form of intent, cf. Canton v. Harris
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  26. in specific cases often consist of composite conditions that do not lend themselves to such pigeonholing. Cf. McCarthy v. Bronson
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  27. note, is there any indication that other officials have sought to use such a defense to avoid the holding of Estelle v. Gamble
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  28. Id. at 475 U. S. 320 -321 (quoting Johnson, 481 F.2d at 1033). See also Dudley v. Stubbs
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  29. would constitute wantonness. The parties agree (and the lower courts have consistently held, see, e.g., LaFaut v. Smith
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  30. assuming the conduct is harmful enough to satisfy the objective component of an Eighth Amendment claim, see Rhodes v. Chapman
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  31. LaFaut, 834 F.2d at 391-392. See also Lopez v. Robinson
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  32. Givens v. Jones
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  33. Cortes-Quinones v. Jimenez-Nettleship
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  34. Morgan v. District
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  35. U.S. at 452 U. S. 347 . As other courts besides the Court of Appeals here have understood, see Wellman v. Faulkner
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  36. Hoptowit v. Ray
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  37. Wright v. Rushen
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  38. or exercise -- for example, a low cell temperature at night combined with a failure to issue blankets. Compare Spain v. Procunier
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  39. when prisoners otherwise confined in small cells almost 24 hours Page 501 U. S. 305 per day) with Clay v. Miller
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  40. and the other does not. The concurrence's imaginative interpretation of Estelle v. Gamble
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  41. requirement to claims of prison-wide deprivation of medical treatment. See, e.g., Toussaint v. McCarthy
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  42. French v. Owens
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  43. in principle, and it is contradicted by our cases. The concurrence purports to find support for it in two cases, Hutto v. Finney
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  44. U. S. 678 (1978), and Rhodes v. Chapman
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  45. or judge. We first considered the relationship between the Eighth Amendment and conditions of confinement in Hutto v. Finney
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  46. It prohibits penalties that are grossly disproportionate to the offense, Weems v. United
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  47. at 429 U. S. 102 , quoting Jackson v. Bishop
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  48. Id. at 437 U. S. 687 . In Rhodes v. Chapman
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  49. punishments which, although not physically barbarous, 'involve the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain,' Gregg v. Page
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  50. or are grossly disproportionate to the severity of the crime, Coker v. Georgia
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