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Prisoner Entitled to Appointment of Substitute Counsel
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1992
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1992, page 6
Richard Rayes is a Nebraska state prisoner. Rayes filed suit under § 1983 claiming prison guards had slammed a steel door on his hand breaking a finger, that medical staff refused to treat him, and guards confiscated his finger splints on three separate occasions which interfered with his medical treatment ...
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