Notice: Eighth Circuit Rule 28a(k) Governs Citation of Unpublished Opinions and Provides That They Are Not Precedent and Generally Should Not Be Cited Unless Relevant to Establishing the Doctrines of Res Judicata, Collateral Estoppel, the Law of the Case, or if the Opinion Has Persuasive Value on a Material Issue and No Published Opinion Would Serve As Well.thomas E. Freeman, Appellant, v. Robert Bryant, Appellee, 141 F.3d 1168 (8th Cir. 1998)

Thomas Freeman, a federal prisoner, appeals from the District Court's¹  judgment, entered upon a jury verdict, in his civil rights action against Robert Bryant, a corrections officer, and from the Court's denial of his new trial motion. Freeman contends the Court abused its discretion by not submitting a Fourteenth Amendment jury instruction, by instructing the jury that it could find for Freeman only if it found, inter alia, that Bryant applied force "sadistically," and by refusing to grant a new trial based upon alleged juror misconduct. After careful review of the record and the parties' submissions, we conclude the District Court did not abuse its discretion. We thus affirm. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.