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Sandin Inapplicable to Detainee Disciplinary Claims
Loaded on April 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
April, 1996, page 20
The court of appeals for the ninth circuit held that a jail policy prohibiting detainees from calling live witnesses to testify at disciplinary hearings, under any circumstances, was unconstitutional. The court held that prison and jail rules confer no legal rights to prisoners and that counties are not liable for ...
Filed under:
Liberty Interests,
Witnesses (Disciplinary Hearings),
Cell Searches,
Legal Materials,
Law Library Access/Adequacy,
Civil Procedure,
Damages,
Mootness,
Municipal Liability.
Location:
Arizona.
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