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New Trial for Beating
Loaded on Sept. 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
September, 1994, page 9
Clifton Thomas is an Illinois state prisoner. While confined at the Pontiac Correctional Center, Thomas was accused of stabbing another prisoner. The state sought and received a court order to obtain a blood sample from Thomas to aid in the investigation of the stabbing. Prison guards summoned Thomas to the ...
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