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Sexual History Evidence Limited in Rape Suit
Loaded on July 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1998, page 19
Afederal district court in New Mexico held that private prison officials were limited in what questions they could elicit about a prison rape victim's sexual history. Tanya Giron is a prisoner who was forcibly raped by private prison guard Danny Tor2ez while in a Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) facility ...
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Civil Procedure,
Evidentiary Ruling,
Discovery.
Location:
New Mexico.
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