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Colorado DOC Attacks Jailhouse Lawyers

Loaded on Sept. 15, 2000 published in Prison Legal News September, 2000, page 15
Filed under: Court Access, Prisoner Legal Assistance, Legal Materials. Location: Colorado.
In March 1998, PLN reported on the case of Tebbetts v. Whitson, 956 P.2d 639 (Colo.App. 1997), where a Colorado prisoner was convicted of attempted bartering as a jailhouse lawyer and possessing another prisoner's legal papers.

The Court of Appeals held the attempted bartering charge could not stand since just …

 

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