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Fourth Amendment Forbids Taping of Jail Confession to Clergy
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1997, page 21
The court of appeals for the ninth circuit held that state prosecutors, judges and jail officials violated the fourth amendment and the now defunct Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), 42 U.S.C. § 2000bb, by secretly taping the confession a jail detainee gave a Catholic priest. Conan Hale was being detained …
Filed under:
Criminal Prosecution,
Conditions of Confinement,
Electronic Monitoring,
Religious Freedom Restoration Act,
Religious Practices,
Clergy.
Location:
Oregon.
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