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Limits on Contact Visits With Counsel Reversed
Loaded on Jan. 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
January, 1995, page 8
Lee Barnett is a California state prisoner on death row. He filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claiming that prison officials had retaliated against him for filing civil rights suits against them; that he was denied contact visits with his attorney in violation of his right of access to …
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