United States Seventh Circuit

Prisoner in a civil rights case is not entitled to a new trial when witness made inflammatory remark about prisoner where counsel, judge and parties did not hear the statement, and the judge gave the jury cautionary instructions to disregard stricken testimony.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/03/2001
• Decided 09/20/2001
• Published 09/20/2001

Judges

• KANNE, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, KANNE, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Gregory M. Smith (argued), Quarles & Brady, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Elizabeth R. Schenkier (argued), Office of the Atty. Gen., Civ. App. Div., Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.