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Appellate Litigation Clinic participant and third-year student Tinsley J. Stokes argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Smith v. Dewberry, a 1983 case where the clinic's client was stabbed two hours after warning prison officials that his eventual attacker had threatened him with a knife. Third-year student Mark L. Bailey helped Stokes prepare for the argument.