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Washington Smoking Suit Dismissed
Loaded on March 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1993, page 5
Ronald Guilmet is a Washington state prisoner at Walla Walla. Guilmet does not smoke and a smoker was placed in his cell. Five days later Guilmet complained to the unit sergeant that cigarette smoke bothered him. About five days after this Guilmet was assigned a non-smoking cellmate. Guilmet filed suit ...
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