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Prisoners Retain Right Against Self-Incrimination
Loaded on July 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1994, page 4
Coy Phelps is a patient involuntarily committed in a Federal Medical Center (FMC) after having been acquitted of criminal charges by reason of insanity. He filed suit challenging both the statutes allowing his commitment and the conditions of confinement he was subjected to. He claimed that prison officials held, without …
Filed under:
Disciplinary Hearings,
Self Incrimination,
Appointment of Counsel,
Summary Judgment,
Complaints,
Mail Regulations,
Due Process,
Civil Commitment,
Required Religious Programming.
Location:
Missouri.
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