Opinion ID: 780379
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Heading: George Skatzes

Text: 16 Plaintiff Skatzes is a death row inmate serving two death sentences for two aggravated murder convictions and fifteen to twenty-five years on each of three kidnaping convictions. He was involved in the 1993 Lucasville prison riot. Skatzes was in his cell when the disturbance began and did not leave his cell. He was hit by a tear gas canister shot through the window in his cell. He claims that when he went to the cell window for some air, someone outside shot him with liquid gas, which landed on his leg. 17 After about an hour, SRT members came to Skatzes's cell and told him to put his head on the wall. Skatzes waited about half an hour. When the officers returned to Skatzes's cell, they told him to put his hands behind his head and to get on his knees. Skatzes complied. The officers then ran into the cell and started to beat Skatzes. Attempting to remove Skatzes's right arm from underneath him, the officers bent his fingers, wrist, and legs and beat him on the side of his head. Skatzes finally allowed the officers to take his arm, and he was handcuffed. The officers picked him up by the handcuffs and escorted him out of the cell. A few steps outside the cell, someone came along, grabbed Skatzes's hair, and slammed his head into the wall. The officers then escorted Skatzes out of DR-4. Another officer approached Skatzes and hit him on the head. Skatzes claims that he took head shots from unknown officers.