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Martinez Hearing Reversed
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1995, page 14
The tenth circuit has approved a process whereby district courts conduct hearings to develop the record and determine whether there is any legal or factual basis to claims brought by pro se prisoner litigants. See: Martinez v. Aaron, 570 F.2d 317 (10th Cir. 1978). In this ruling the court specifically …
Filed under:
Disciplinary Hearings,
Witnesses (Disciplinary Hearings),
Summary Judgment.
Location:
Colorado.
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