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Discipline for Correspondence Containing Legal Advice Vacated; US S.Ct. Grants Review
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2000, page 22
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that punishment imposed upon a prisoner law clerk for sending a letter containing legal advice to another prisoner was an exaggerated response, which violated the law clerk's First Amendment rights.
Filed under:
Disciplinary Hearings,
Legality of Rules,
Prisoner Legal Assistance,
Mail Regulations.
Location:
Montana.
While confined in the Montana State Prison, Kevin Murphy has worked as a …
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