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Disciplinary Segregation Bars Criminal Prosecution
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1995, page 13
PLN rarely reports unpublished court rulings but we do so occasionally when such rulings have a news value to readers or state a novel legal theory. This is such a case. A superior court in Norfolk County Massachusetts has held that filing criminal charges against a prisoner confined to disciplinary ...
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Double jeopardy (Hearings),
Crime/Demographics,
Criminal Prosecution.
Location:
Massachusetts.
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