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Urinalysis is Search
Loaded on July 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1994, page 11
Anthony Lucero is a Colorado state prisoner. He refused prison official's order to submit a urine sample for urinalysis testing and was infracted, found guilty and punished for refusing to obey an order. Lucero filed suit under § 1983 claiming that the urinalysis violated his rights to be free from …
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